We want to strengthen the dialogue between governments and the global coal industry in order to increase the awareness of the role low
emissions coal plays in providing access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all.
The World Coal Association (WCA) has published a series of videos discussing major issues surrounding coal that considers the role low
emission coal plays in energy security and economic development...
Not exact matches
The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of
coal a year, and the fossil fuel has
played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide
emissions, dating to the early 20th century
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.
These types of demonstration projects are critical to determining the potential role that carbon capture and storage technology can
play in curbing global warming
emissions from
coal.
Another game offers me the opportunity to
play the part of a virtual energy minister — a kind of eco Sim City in which you can build different types of power plant, from tidal to
coal, to cope with the virtual city's energy demand and its
emissions targets.
Efficiency gains in electricity generation from
coal - fired power stations will
play a crucial part in reducing CO2
emissions at a global level.
In one of the many lobby forays that followed, Eurogas's secretary - general Beate Raabe urged an audience of senior EU officials and diplomats to recognise the role that fossil fuels could
play in cutting
emissions by a switch from dirty
coal to cleaner gas.
While some of this was due to the final phaseout of
coal power in the province, other steps like decreased
emissions from its vehicle fleet and facility retrofits also
played a factor.
While
coal - to - gas switching
played a major role in reducing
emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.
The IEA has envisaged that CCS, which buries and traps CO2 underground, should
play a major role in cutting global
emissions and had forecast 63 % of
coal power plants should be equipped with the technology by 2050.
Like BP, the World
Coal Association (WCA) considers improving efficiency of energy as an important trend and notes the role that the transition to modern coal technologies including high efficiency low emissions (HELE) technologies have played in slowing emissions around the world, particularly in A
Coal Association (WCA) considers improving efficiency of energy as an important trend and notes the role that the transition to modern
coal technologies including high efficiency low emissions (HELE) technologies have played in slowing emissions around the world, particularly in A
coal technologies including high efficiency low
emissions (HELE) technologies have
played in slowing
emissions around the world, particularly in Asia.
The report highlights: Trends in domestic energy demand and supply prospects to 2040, broken down by fuel and sector The outlook for the power sector and the increasing share of
coal in the region's electricity generation The role that Southeast Asia will
play in international energy trade and the implications for its energy expenditures The potential energy and environmental benefits of implementing pragmatic measures that would help limit the rise in the region's greenhouse - gas
emissions An in - depth analysis of energy prospects in Malaysia to 2040 A focus on four key issues that will shape the direction of the region's energy system: power grid interconnection, energy investment, energy access and fossil - fuel subsidies
The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal
emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI),
play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by
coal plant operators.
The WCA works to demonstrate and gain acceptance for the fundamental role
coal plays in achieving a sustainable and lower
emissions energy future.
While a shift in electric generation to natural gas from
coal has
played a significant role in recent reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions, more will need to be done for the U.S. to meet its goal of reducing GHG
emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
With cheap natural gas substituting
coal for electricity production, a sustained downturn in coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, pure play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of
coal for electricity production, a sustained downturn in
coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, pure play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of
coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas
emissions in the United States, pure
play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of
coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch
Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of
Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of it.
Prior to the earthquake and nuclear crisis, Japan's government had pledged to reduce CO2
emissions to 25 % below 1990 levels by 2020, a challenge that would be virtually impossible should
coal or LNG
play a greatly expanded role in the nation's electricity system.
Education, regulation and suasion have only a bit - part role to
play in reducing
emissions — the price of energy derived from
coal, oil and gas must rise first, and probably substantially.