Sentences with phrase «coal development more»

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.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

To examine transport infrastructure developments more closely, a detailed survey of the infrastructure associated with major coal and iron ore ports was undertaken.

In Mozambique, the development of infrastructure to support the coal assets is more challenging than Rio Tinto originally anticipated.

Given that Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development in aggregate hold more than 20 per cent of Coal & Allied, in accordance with the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Coal & Allied shareholders (other than Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development and their respective subsidiaries) will need to vote to approve the relevant joint bid arrangements between Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi Development and Hunter Valley Resources and their respective related bodies corporate («Coal & Allied Shareholder Approval») before the Scheme can proceed.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

Not so fast, says Harry Gray of the California Institute of Technology: he's predicting at least 10 more years of research and development in order to make solar energy competitive with coal.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

He called for more research and development into «clean coal,» saying that coal was part of his all - of - the - above approach to energy.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

Two separate developments reported elsewhere point to the enduring power of the status quo to trump environmental initiatives — the startup of China's first big coal - to - liquids refinery (nod to Environmental Capital) and strong signs that China's highly publicized eco-cities efforts are more facade than reality (nod to Treehugger).

If fuel prices stay the way they've been (that is, expensive and becoming more so), we can expect to see more funding for magnificent developments in alternative fuels (sadly, one of which is coal) as they supplant oil as an industrial, commercial and transportation energy source.

In the decade 2020 - 2030 developments can't be forecast, but all alternatives to coal and oil will be cheaper than they are now, and more widespread.

The big commitments reflect coal - based industrialization and energy - intensive development whose value is more questionable given the climate and health impacts entailed and availability of cleaner and more energy - efficient options.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal - to - gas and coal - to - hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near - zero carbon emissions, while increasing the... Read more →

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

In 1865, Jevons correctly predicted that the development of more efficient ways to harness the power of coal would lead to an increase in coal burning.

No more new coal mines or gas developments.

The companies also back natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and want to see more research and development into renewables and carbon capture and storage.

The figure below shows the steep capacity development of grid - connected coal (and lignite) power stations in India, with capacity reaching almost 200GW in 2017, more than doubling since 2007.

For more information on the proposed port developments in the western United States please visit the Coal exports from northwest United States ports article.

The group hopes to convince the Montana Land Board to reject development of coal in eastern Montana's Otter Creek, or at a minimum delay action on the issue while more studies are undertaken.

These included replacement of high - sulfur coal with low - sulfur coal, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, coal cleaning techniques, and development of higher efficiency combustion techniques that allowed more electricity to be generated per ton of emissions.

Installations of wind and solar totaled almost 155 gigawatts (GW) last year, more than the entire installed power capacity in the U.K., meaning that renewables continue to far outpace coal - fired power plant development.

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.

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.

Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show that the Polish government supported its coal industry with more than $ 840 million in tax expenditures and budgetary support in 2011.

For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.»

While it is hard to give the Obama administration credit for all of these factors, it was instrumental in several of them, especially the quantum jump in CAFE standards, the development and deployment of more renewables and the ongoing pressure on coal plants by the EPA.

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

As the divestment movement and opposition to projects like Keystone XL and the Dakota Access Pipeline continue to grow, it will make it more and more expensive for oil, gas, and coal companies to finance new development projects — and stigmatize their product in the process.

More recently, the development of coalbed methane (CBM) gas exploitation in the Gillette coal measures has added an entirely new set of hard data points to previous estimates.

As one might imagine, if developments in technology and government policies result in emissions complying with this tighter carbon budget, this renders even more coal, oil and gas unburnable.

The oil giants also want to do more to promote natural gas, which has become more abundant because of recent developments in the exploitation of shale gas and emits half as much greenhouse gas as coal does.

Instead of funding coal plants, oil refineries or roads that cut through pristine forests as some observers had feared, new southern - led infrastructure lender the New Development Bank (NDB or BRICS bank), has earmarked its first US$ 811 million batch of loans for renewable energy projects... Read More