Sentences with phrase «next coal country»

- Clean Energy Wire (Germany): Poland's Katowice COP: Next coal country hosting UN climate talks.

Not exact matches

We know that fast - growing countries such as China are planning to transition from coal to natural gas over the next four to five years, and we need to position ourselves to capitalize on these long - term opportunities.»

Hart said a key question next week would be how the program would seek to avoid advantaging provinces with substantial renewable energy resources over those that are more dependent on coal - fired power, like Liaoning in northeastern China, which is known as the country's Rust Belt.

«Starting with the global review due next year, countries have to get out of coal and strengthen their existing targets so as to keep open the window to the Paris goals.

Around the country, about 600 power plants must be closed or retooled in the next two years, the result of EPA rules issued in 2011 that clamped down on coal - fired pollution.

The International Energy Agency (an energy policy organization for the world's 28 richest countries) estimates that the world needs to spend $ 20 billion in the next few years developing and deploying such clean coal technology.

Several countries in Europe have committed to phasing out coal in the next ten years, including the UK, France, Italy, Sweden and Austria.

Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.

Realization that all coal - fired power plants without actual carbon capture will have to be «bull - dozed» in the next several decades, in all countries, should serve as an effective brake on new construction of coal - fired power plants during the next few years in all countries.

The vision that «clean coal» will play a significant role in the country's energy future was on display last night in Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and you can be sure it will be highlighted when John McCain speaks next week, as well.

The piece focuses on a study coming next month from Max Auffhammer and others at the University of California, Berkeley, which concludes that growth in China's coal use and emissions had been underestimated and would easily outpace any gains from efficiency or other shifts in industrialized countries.

Interestingly, gold and silver prices track each other much better than do the price of coal from one region of the country to the next.

How can the developed countries expect that China, for example, which has plans to double its coal production in the next 15 years in order to spur development, will be willing or even able to change course?

The value of doing this is clear: «Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.»

There are several dozen other countries investing in next - generation nuclear technologies (along with things like renewables, shale gas, coal - to - gas, etc.) to power rapidly growing demand.

The U.S. government forecasters at EIA expect that U.S. coal exports will fall back to about 110 million tons per year over the next two years, due to economic weakness in Europe, falling international prices, and competition from other coal - exporting countries.

Saying the country's grid would remain «controllable,» the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) urged states to approve more than a dozen new coal and gas plants and transmission upgrades over the next several years.

Poor countries sought cash, China sought opaque emissions reporting and Polish coal miners host the next one.

Climate News Network: The man responsible for maintaining India's power supply says he wants the country's coal production to double within the next five years.

This analysis reveals that global coal production may still increase over the next 10 to 15 years by about 30 percent, mainly driven by Australia, China, the Former Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and South Africa.

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

The country's Minister of Power, Coal, and Renewable Energy has reportedly said that India's coal industry will dwindle in the next 10 to 15 yeCoal, and Renewable Energy has reportedly said that India's coal industry will dwindle in the next 10 to 15 yecoal industry will dwindle in the next 10 to 15 years.

EPA's Clean Power Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 years.

The industry's plan B, to export production to assumed perennial growth markets in Asia, has also floundered amid a global market awash with supply from other countries and weak demand; Chinese coal consumption fell nearly 3 % in 2014 while India, the world's third largest buyer, says it may stop imports of thermal coal in the next three years With domestic markets collapsing and no lifeline from abroad, 264 [1] US mines were closed between 2011 and 2013.

Planned coal - fired capacity additions from a number of countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity over the next decade, based on announced projects and projects currently in the permitting process.

Ending its report with the tagline «China is coal, coal is China,» the IEA sees that country as determining the course of the global coal market over the next five years.

To more quickly speed up the on - going transition to renewable energy, China can, for example, work to peak its coal consumption by 2020, while the US can put money on the table at the Green Climate Fund pledging conference next week, allowing developing countries to boost their own action.

All rich countries would have to commit now to build no more coal - fired power plants and phase out existing ones in the next 2 - 3 decades (carbon capture and storage simply will not be ready in time), and the same commitment would need to be made within a few years by China, India, Brazil and other big developing countries.

And plans for the next two Five Year Plans show us that the Indian government is planning a major expansion of power generation through the construction of coal power plants which will make the country the third worst climate polluter on Earth.

«A key sticking point in the negotiations during the next two weeks will be finance — specifically, whether developing countries trying to green their economies will get enough of it to make the clean energy transition worth it when coal remains cheaper,» explained Greenwire in its piece on the Gates fund:

«Wind Manufacturer Offers Job Training in Oil City, Next Stop Coal Country.»

All eyes are on the next big opportunity to put the Commission's call to action into practice: countries must agree to narrowly limit their support of export credits to overseas coal projects through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The findings of this report are significant as several European countries — including Austria, Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden — have made a commitment to phasing out coal - fired energy within the next decade.

If countries were to start right away and build really fast, so that they installed a trillion watts of gas - fired electricity generation steadily over the next 40 years, that would still add about half a degree Fahrenheit to the average surface temperature of the Earth in 2112 — that's within a tenth of a degree of the warming that coal - fired plants would produce by that year.

For countries such as the U.S. and Germany, which today produce more than half of their electricity from coal, or China and India, where a large majority of the electricity is generated from coal, it is difficult to see how cost - effective and politically viable emission reductions can be achieved during the next several decades without at least some continued use of coal....