Sentences with phrase «global coal development»

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

Not exact matches

«Each purchase of a white Coca - Cola can supports: false testimony on global warming; perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears... activism to fight the development of affordable coal, oil and natural gas; hypocrites who won't follow their own recommendations; and expansion of already excessive environmental regulations.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

The United States said Tuesday it plans to use its leverage within global development banks to limit financing for coal - fired power plants abroad, part of Washington's international strategy to combat climate change.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

Top priorities of the Trump transition team and cabinet nominees — many who disregard the connection between global warming and fossil fuel energy use — include rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and gas development.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

As oil and coal fall back and renewables ramp up strongly, natural gas becomes the largest single fuel in the global mix in the Sustainable Development Scenario.

The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal - fired power plants and so minimise CO2 emissions which will otherwise be emitted while maintaining legitimate economic development and poverty alleviation efforts.

Tags: #PopeinDC, #PopeinNYC, #PopeinPhiladelphia, #PopeinUS, Abraham Lincoln, Address to Congress, arms trade, Biden, Boehner, Care for Our Common Home, climate change, climate change encyclical, climate policy, Coal, Common Good, Congress, COP21, death penalty, Dorothy Day, ecology, encyclical, environment, fossil fuels, France, full text, full text of address to Congress, G20, G20 Conference, G20 Energy Ministers, gas, global warming, house of representatives, Laudato Si, Martin Luther King, New York, Obama, oil, Oxfam America, Paris, Pelosi, People's Climate March, Philadelphia, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Prelude to Paris, Senate, solar, St. Pope John Paul II, Thomas Merton, Turkey, UN, United Nation's Sustainable Development Summit, United Nations, United Nations Climate Conference in Paris, United States, Washington DC, wind

The campaign will also make the case that going down the coal route will be costly for India's global image and long term development interests.

Going forward, we will promote fuel - switching from coal to gas for electricity production and encourage the development of a global market for gas.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

Chair: Mr. Larry METZROTH, Vice President Analysis & Strategy, Arch Coal, United States Mr. Paul BARUYA, Market Analyst, IEA Clean Coal Centre, United Kingdom Mr. Andrew FIKKERS, Market Analysis Manager, Xstrata Coal, Australia (based on materials from Mr. Ran XING, China Managing Director, Barry Rogliano Salles, China) Open discussion Session 5 International trade - what lies in store for global hard coal trade and what fundamentals will drive developmeCoal, United States Mr. Paul BARUYA, Market Analyst, IEA Clean Coal Centre, United Kingdom Mr. Andrew FIKKERS, Market Analysis Manager, Xstrata Coal, Australia (based on materials from Mr. Ran XING, China Managing Director, Barry Rogliano Salles, China) Open discussion Session 5 International trade - what lies in store for global hard coal trade and what fundamentals will drive developmeCoal Centre, United Kingdom Mr. Andrew FIKKERS, Market Analysis Manager, Xstrata Coal, Australia (based on materials from Mr. Ran XING, China Managing Director, Barry Rogliano Salles, China) Open discussion Session 5 International trade - what lies in store for global hard coal trade and what fundamentals will drive developmeCoal, Australia (based on materials from Mr. Ran XING, China Managing Director, Barry Rogliano Salles, China) Open discussion Session 5 International trade - what lies in store for global hard coal trade and what fundamentals will drive developmecoal trade and what fundamentals will drive developments?

According to Shorting the Climate, a report documenting big bank support for fossil fuel infrastructure, the top global and U.S. banks provided $ 785 billion for fossil fuel infrastructure such as coal and tar sands development from 2013 through 2015.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

This year's report includes a detailed assessment of global developments in the coal sector.

On one hand, we have global figures claiming that the world doesn't need coal and that developing countries will be able to drive forward with economic development without it.

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.

Supporting new coal development greatly undermines President Obama's much - touted climate legacy, including his commitment under the Climate Action Plan to restrict financing coal plants overseas and the recent formal U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, which aspires to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and thus rules out any question of U.S. investment in coal.

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

Greens often note that the changing global climate will have the greatest impact on the world's poor; they neglect to mention that the poor also have the most to gain from development fueled by cheap fossil fuels like coal.

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Global warming emissions from burning coal could be reduced by planting trees and using technology still in development to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, he said in the report.

In the last two years, «There has been an awful lot of mining development, and much of it is based on the potential of these new markets,» said David Price, director of the global steam coal advisory service at IHS - Cera, a global energy consultancy.

Weaver argues that the climate effects of oil sands development will have only a small effect on global temperatures and that the potential of coal and gas consumption to contribute to serious climate change is much greater.