Sentences with phrase «global coal»

For those who would like to take the next step, our partners at Urgewald developed a new divestment tool: The Global Coal Exit List coalexit.org.

«In most of these countries, there is massive 1 These numbers are based on CoalSwarm's «Global Coal Plant Tracker ``, which maps all proposed and existing coal - fired power stations worldwide.

«But while everything else is changing, global coal demand remains the same.»

While India will be increasingly important to global coal markets, China will remain the key driver.

That is bigger than the collective $ 2.2 trillion value of the global coal and oil stocks as tracked in the MSCI index.»

By 2022, global coal demand is expected to reach 5,530 Mtce, the same as the average of the last five - year period, and meaning that coal use will have had a decade - long period of stagnation.

Until recently, global coal production and use were still growing (PDF).

It wasn't long ago that everyone expected global coal use to rise for decades to come, and now it's looking increasingly likely that the coal boom is over.

After all, it wasn't long ago that energy experts everywhere expected global coal use to climb for decades to come.

And in yet another sign that the global coal boom is over, Bank of America has just announced a sweeping new commitment to scale down its credit exposure to coal mining.

NGOs, political bodies and investors should take inspiration from the Global Coal Exit List as a detailed new instrument, to accelerate the exit from coal.»

The organization CoalSwarm has put together a database called the «Global Coal Plant Tracker».

Using methane's 20 - year GWP — a measure of the short - term climate impact of different GHGs — increases the share of oil and gas methane to over 8 % of global GHG (with emissions of 5,650 Mt CO2e), the equivalent of about 40 % of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion in 2012.

The Global Coal Exit List is a practical tool that not only enables divestment, but makes it effective.

«The Global Coal Exit List brings transparency to the haze surrounding the global coal industry and shows us that the industry is much bigger than often assumed.

In its statement AXA confirms that it is using the «Global Coal Exit List» to guide its coal divestment.

It is a «Who is Who» of the global coal industry and provides key statistics on 775 companies.

The Global Coal Exit List makes coal divestment easy and more impactful.

Coal consumption across Asia is slated to outpace that of China over the next 20 years, coupled with an absolute increase in global coal demand over the next seven years.

In a new half - hour webinar, Urgewald staff explains the creation, content and usage of the «Global Coal Exit List» database.

One global coal player, Peabody, recently told the World Coal Conference that it assumes demand for coal will increase by over 50 per cent by 2030.

WRI's Global Coal Risk Assessment found that there are nearly 1,200 new coal - fired power plants slated for development worldwide.

Meanwhile, Christiana Figueres, the head of climate change at the UN, told a global coal summit that the industry would have to undergo drastic changes if it's to maintain a role in the future of energy.

It predicts that global coal employment could fall by 53 per cent under the most stringent emission reduction scenario.

The IEA continues to see an increase in global coal use by 0.2 % per year, and says China's coal use will continue to make up more than half of the country's total power generation, with Australia remaining the largest coal exporter, followed by Indonesia.

Following the oil report, this risk analysis focuses for the first time on the global coal industry, highlighting that $ 112bn of future capital expenditure (capex) in potential thermal coal production (excluding China) is at risk of becoming stranded.

全球煤电产能大减 中国贡献最大 (Global coal power capacity greatly reduced — greatest contribution to China) emoney.cn September 7, 2016

100 million tons is would be significant but by the time things are ramped up to this level (if it ever happens), global coal sea trade is expected to be far greater in tonnage than it is currently.

In a report released in late June, the Sierra Club said runaway plant construction costs and rising global coal prices have made the plants financially risky investments.

For example, global coal consumption increases only 27 % in the twenty two years between 1980 and 2002 (8).

Today, the high powered Global Commission on the Climate and Economy released its flagship report on global coal use and the economy: The New Climate Economy.

«China now accounts for 47 percent of global coal consumption — almost as much as the rest of the world combined,» EIA said of the latest figures.

The report pulls no punches when it comes to coal, including a call for a global coal phaseout involving an immediate end to investments in new unabated coal - fired power plants globally and the retirement of existing unabated coal - fired power plants in high income countries.

A Shrinking Coal Plant Pipeline: Mid-2016 Results from the Global Coal Plant Tracker Christine Shearer, Aiqun Yu, and Ted Nace CoalSwarm September 2016

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline Christine Shearer, Nicole Ghio, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Ted Nace CoalSwarm and Sierra Club March 2015

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

Boom and Bust 2017: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline Christine Shearer, Nicole Ghio, Lauri Myllyvirta, Aiqun Yu, and Ted Nace CoalSwarm, Sierra Club, Greenpeace March 2017 (Chinese)(English)(Hindi)(Indonesian)(Japanese)(Thai)(Turkish)(Vietnamese)

Global coal consumption dropped − 1.7 % in 2016 and by − 0.7 % averaged over the past five years, but is projected to increase in 2017.

«And the «China Factor» appears to have ushered in a new paradigm for the global coal market.»

Edited by Bob Burton, CoalWire is CoalSwarm's weekly news bulletin that summarizes the most significant developments affecting the global coal industry and highlights the efforts of groups around the world working on coal - related issues.

Raising the average efficiency of the global coal fleet from the current 33 % to 40 % — achievable with off - the - shelf technology — would save 2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Even as global coal development continues, the U.S. industry itself is shrinking.

How hot is it going to get if global coal consumption peaks at 7 billion tons per year, oil consumption peaks at 100 million barrels per day and natural gas consumption peaks at 150 trillion cubic feet per year?

The U.S. is the fifth - largest backer of global coal projects.

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.

At the same time, it's global coal consumption exceeded 10 % for the first time ever.

Investors want assurances that capital is not being spent on high - cost, high - carbon projects that may not be competitive as global coal demand declines.

All of the top ten global coal mining financiers are from China, and six of the world's biggest financiers of coal power are from China.

Disruptions in the global coal supply chain from natural disasters, such as typhoons and flooding in Australia's key coal mining region, have resulted in higher demand for U.S. coal worldwide.

As global coal suppliers recover, EIA expects U.S. coal exports, while remaining relatively high, to moderate over the course of the year.