Sentences with phrase «coal growth»

The traditional drivers of coal growth — construction and manufacturing — will continue to give way to the service sector in economic growth.

«The prospect of weaker demand growth and prices at near marginal production costs suggest that most thermal coal growth projects will struggle to earn a positive return for their owners,» Goldman Sachs said in a report.

Data (1, 2) showing China's impressive recent wind & solar scale - up relative to coal growth from a decade earlier.

China has been central to global coal growth for the past two decades.

Also, Yang noted coal use for heating in rural villages in northern China is being replaced by natural gas, which may help offset coal growth in other sectors.

(Many signs indicate that the «green» energy moves are on top of coal growth, not instead of it.)

Its demand for a substantial portion of the atmosphere's remaining «carbon space» — essentially making room for that coal growth — is legitimate and ethical, as long as it is doing whatever it can (with financing or technical help from rich countries) to build the most efficient, cleanest coal plants possible.

This large difference is even more striking when considering that the productive capacity of the Chinese economy was almost 3x smaller during the coal growth period than the wind / solar growth period.