Sentences with phrase «coal than the rest of the world»
It burns more coal than the rest of the world combined.
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Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.
China is building more nuclear plants (zero - emissions) and ultrasupercritical coal plants, which are much more efficient than conventional plants and thus less polluting, than the rest of the world combined.
Eighty - five percent of those CO2 emissions come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, which are providing more than 80 % of the world's energy; most of the rest coming from deforestation.
The new restrictions were followed a period of rapid expansion of the coal sector in China from 2016 to 2017 when it commissioned 692 GW of coal - fired capacity — more than twice the amount in the rest of the world combined.
If the rest of the world joins Australia in this simple step to sharply cut carbon emissions, the worldwide drop in electricity use would permit the closing of more than 270 coal - fired (500 megawatt) power plants.
Despite growing demand in Asia, the United States exports slightly more coal to Europe than it sends the rest of the world combined.
«China imports about five percent of its coal — that five percent is three times larger than all the rest of the world's coal trade combined,» Dimick said.