Sentences with phrase «chinese coal pollution»

Every year they are held back — by whatever means, natural or Chinese coal pollution — there is a greater rebound building in.

Lots of stuff travels to other hemispheres through the ocean and air — California gets enough Chinese coal pollution to challenge the state's air pollution standards.

Not exact matches

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

What the Chinese delegate admits, tacitly, is that the level of US emissions, projected in China, implie such air pollution (mostly from coal and motor vehicles) that it is unsustainable.

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Although China is among the largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e. coal fired power generation) behind.

Coal production ceased finally in the UK in 2015, while the Chinese economy is reducing its heavy reliance on coal production in an attempt to improve on terrible air pollution, especially in major citCoal production ceased finally in the UK in 2015, while the Chinese economy is reducing its heavy reliance on coal production in an attempt to improve on terrible air pollution, especially in major citcoal production in an attempt to improve on terrible air pollution, especially in major cities.

In September, the Chinese government announced a plan to tackle the high levels of air pollution including for the first time measures to cut coal consumption.

A new study funded by Greenpeace shows that a quarter of a million Chinese people died of air pollution from coal fired -LSB-...]

The Shindell article is consistent with what I was saying in the first place, namely that all those coal fired power plants can give a short term negative forcing until the Chinese get tired of the pollution.

Barring a dramatic slump in the Chinese economy (even more than we have seen until now), oil and gas consumption are bound to keep growing in the medium term, on the back of increased transport demand and government policies to increase gas consumption to stem air pollution from coal burning.

In an attempt to remedy its horrific air pollution problems of recent years, a meaningful Chinese shift away from coal seems to also be having global benefit.

However, a Chinese government report recently found that only a tiny fraction of Chinese cities fully complied with pollution standards in 2013, while approving the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013, according to a Reuters report.

Coal — the reigning king of China's energy sector — generates 74 percent of the country's electricity and is the main source of the staggering air pollution blanketing Chinese cities.

«Beijing will ban coal use in its six main districts by the end of 2020, state media cited the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau as saying, as the Chinese capital steps up efforts to combat air pollution.

High levels of air pollution have become commonplace in Beijing and other Chinese cities, especially during winter months when temperatures drop and more coal is burned when heating systems are switched on.

Still, with both an apparent viral grassroots response to pollution underway and an unprecedented drop in Chinese coal use, production and imports becoming increasingly evident, it seems likely that this trend is more than just hot air.