Sentences with phrase «coal development»

However, this research shows a significant — and troubling — interest in coal development globally.

She had to quickly learn how to manage a farm, and abruptly encountered the harsh reality of what coal development was doing to the local community.

It does not include support for domestic coal development.

Using law and science, the Center challenges destructive new coal development in areas across the West.

Supporting new coal development greatly undermines President Obama's much - touted climate legacy, including his commitment under the Climate Action Plan to restrict financing coal plants overseas and the recent formal U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, which aspires to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and thus rules out any question of U.S. investment in coal.

Despite continued coal development, India has now unveiled ambitious levels of renewable deployment for the next decade.

Wendy Bowman, Australia: In the midst of an onslaught of coal development in Australia, octogenarian Wendy Bowman stopped a powerful multinational mining company from taking her family farm and protected her community in Hunter Valley from further pollution and environmental destruction.

In order for this pledge to have any significance, the World Bank must immediately reverse its active support for massive coal developments in Indonesia.

There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.

World Bank Accelerating Coal Development in Indonesia Oil Change International September 2013 Download full briefing (pdf) Download a translation of the briefing in Bahasa Indonesia (pdf)

Recent figures suggested emissions from Chinese coal plants may have peaked last year, while the government in the past few months has announced a series of measures to curtail coal development.

(if Reneweconomy is getting 3 million hits there must be a groundswell of well - informed citizens out there who will not countenance coal developments?)

Even as global coal development continues, the U.S. industry itself is shrinking.

G20 nations have asked for an independent assessment of whether fossil fuel companies» $ 6 trillion of investment into oil, gas, and coal development since 2007 might be based on false assumptions about demand that could risk the bursting of a so - called «carbon bubble.»

A strong grassroots movement in Bangladesh is fighting to protect the Sundarbans from coal development.

LNG and coal developments heighten risk to protected marine park, according to environmental groups.

The people have spoken: New coal development is toxic to our environment and human health, and we refuse to accept the status quo anymore.

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

In the midst of an onslaught of coal development in Australia, octogenarian Wendy Bowman stopped a powerful multinational mining company from taking her family farm and protected her community in Hunter Valley from further pollution and environmental destruction.

Coal development in Africa is concentrated in the southern part of the continent.

Instead, the 2012 version emphasizes «taking advantage of all our American God - given resources» and the need to encourage greater domestic oil, gas, and coal development.

A federal court has ruled against a U.S. Interior Department plan to open more than 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights to fossil fuel extraction, concluding that the government failed to adequately consider how the oil, gas and coal development would affect the climate and other environmental resources.

As climate scientists stress that climate change has contributed to the enormous size and strength of recent storms including Hurricane Irma, which has killed at least ten people in the Caribbean and left the island of Barbuda «uninhabitable» as it heads toward Florida, a coalition of more than 220 organizations called for a «managed decline of fossil fuel production» on Thursday, with an immediate end to new oil, gas, and coal development.

On August 13, 2012 protesters opposed to coal development in Montana occupied the state Capitol in Helena, the first day of a week - long protest aimed at elected officials to push them to block future development leases.

Equally bad, they are losing tens of billions in royalty, tax and other revenue that they would receive if they were not blocking oil, gas and coal development and use — and destroying manufacturing jobs that depend on cheap, reliable energy, so that companies can compete in international marketplaces.

Because it will send a signal to countries like the Philippines, investing heavily in coal, or Turkey, or even some of the coal developments in Africa.

China and South Korea financed $ 14.8 billion and $ 7.3 billion in coal development, respectively, while Germany backed $ 6.8 billion in projects.

The report suggests that it is much more affordable to continue along the coal development path way rather than transitioning towards natural gas which would cost USD 75 billion annually.