Sentences with phrase «cutting coal use»

And coal prices have plummeted globally, as China tackles its air pollution crisis and industrial overcapacity by cutting coal use.

Some environmental groups are starting to soften their blanket opposition to nuclear power as an option for cutting coal use and emissions, but most still maintain that bright line in the sand.

GLOBAL BC, Vancouver: US Plans to Cut Coal Use Unlikely to Affect Transport Through BC Due to Demand in Asia

Byers thinks that because the Clean Power Plan would cut coal use, repealing it can help coal country.

Analysts say the plan could cut coal use by almost half, while boosting power generated from natural gas, nuclear plants and renewable energy.

Many countries pledged in the Paris Agreement reached last December to cut their coal use.

Not exact matches

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The US president used his state of the union address yesterday to announce plans to cut the use of petrol by 20 per cent in the next decade and diversify the US» energy sources by investing in clean coal, solar and wind power.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Opponents say cutting use of oil, gas and coal is a more effective way to redirect energy companies

«This study shows it's possible to reduce coal use and cut emissions without major economic impacts, refuting skeptics who've predicted economic ruin,» said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House official and climate expert attending the Paris negotiations.

Efforts to use biomass rather than burning it in the fields could help ease China's energy needs, displacing coal and cutting air pollution

Opponents call Clean Power Plan «illegal» Power company Dominion, which operates three coal - fired units subject to the Clean Power Plan in West Virginia, recommended that the state develop a carbon - cutting plan that uses interstate trading.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of coal in China may run into difficulties getting accurate numbers

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

Meanwhile Germany, the EU's economic powerhouse and a country often regarded as a leader in cutting CO2 emissions, is gradually upping its coal use.

Plantation forestry is the key rather than the usual approach of cutting emissions by reducing the rate of using carbon fuels like coal, oil and gas.

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).

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

This really large brown coal mine works as an open cut mine and the commodity is transported daily to Port Augusta by rail twice a day and is solely used for producing electricity.

This could provide a way to continue to use coal and natural gas for power generation with reduced emissions, an 80 to 90 % cut according to your link.

Cut the number of coal plants in USA / EU and just get people there to use a lot less electricity.

Carolyn Kissane, academic director at the New York University School for Global Affairs, described China's intensive push to cut its use of coal in its choking cities.

They've deployed this issue, of course, mainly to attack efforts to use taxes or other means to raise the price of polluting fuels like coal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

If a country is a large enough player in coal export markets, then cutting back exports will increase prices for internationally traded coal, and hence give importers an incentive to use less.

By industry segment the cuts / changes might look something like this: Coal / FF Use — 0.5 GtC — a 6 % Cut More Forests — 0.3 GtC) Neg.

... [E] ven as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

They are pushing an ambitious agenda: freezing carbon dioxide emissions and coal use, cutting the nation's energy used 20 percent by 2015, and setting the country on a course toward cutting emissions of greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

By reducing our use of coal - fired power, it cut carbon - dioxide emissions by perhaps 10 percent.

Moving the current average global efficiency rate of coal - fired power plants from 33 % to 40 %, using more advanced off - the - shelf technology, could cut two gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2011).

In June 1989, President George H. W. Bush proposed the use of a cap - and - trade system to cut by half sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and consequent acid rain.

China is cutting back its use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, even though it's cheap.

Actions to significantly reduce GHG emissions in developing countries would involve dramatically cutting back the use of coal, the source of 71 percent of India's electricity and 81 percent of China's.

By 2050, cities could cut annual GHG emissions by 8.0 Gt CO2e over what national policies are currently on track to achieve, the equivalent of cutting annual global coal use by more than half.

Beijing is to ban the sale and use of coal in several regions including its six main districts by 2020 cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce air pollution, according to an announcement by local authorities on Monday.

Shifting to the highly efficient bulbs sharply reduces monthly electricity bills and cuts carbon emissions, since each standard (13 watt) compact fluorescent over its lifetime reduces coal use by more than 210 pounds.

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.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) spoke this morning at the release of a Greenpeace Energy [R] evolution report that lays out, using quite conservative estimates, how «the United States can meet the energy needs of a growing economy and achieve science - based cuts in global warming pollution — without nuclear power or coal.»

Coal use without CCS is already largely eliminated in the 2C scenario, so the shift to below 2C disproportionately cuts into the space available for burning oil and gas.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleause (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

In accordance with an agreement reached with the US in late 2014, and in line with pledges made at the recent Paris summit on climate change, China aims to radically cut back on coal use in future.

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.