Sentences with phrase «global coal production»

Asian coal production accounted for over one - half of global coal production in 2010 compared to 22 % in 1980.

These countries account for over 80 percent of global coal production.

Asia's growing coal demand has fueled large increases in global coal production.

To sequester one billion tons of CO2, more than 3 billion tons basalt would have to be spread, a mindboggling amount equal to almost half of the current global coal production.

Since China and the United States together constitute more than half of global coal production, a peak of coal use in these nations can be sufficient to ensure that the peak in coal use is now behind us.

There was also a record decline in global coal production, driven by low prices globally and then mining controls in China, which saw coal markets rally.

In 2010, Tadeusz Patzek estimated that the world would hit peak coal around 2011.10 The exact year that global coal production would peak is less interesting than the implication.

China, which increased its domestic coal production by 3.5 percent last year, now accounts for 47.5 percent of global coal production, followed by the United States (13.4 percent) and India (6 percent).

Much of global coal production is used in the country in which it was produced; only around 15 % of hard coal production is destined for the international coal market.

Therefore, the outlook for coal production in these two countries will dominate the future of global coal production (see below).

This analysis reveals that global coal production may still increase over the next 10 to 15 years by about 30 percent, mainly driven by Australia, China, the Former Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and South Africa.

Africa accounted for less than 4 % of global coal production; South Africa accounts for 98 % of coal production on the continent.

FSU's current 7 % share of global coal production was down from a 19 % share of global coal production in 1980.

While comprising 16 % of global coal production in 1980, China's dramatic growth over the past 30 years — accounting for 75 % of the increase in global coal production — has increased its global market share to 44 %.

Global coal production was up about 3.8 billion short tons (91 %) from 1980 through 2010.

In 2010, Oceania comprised 6 % of global coal production, nearly all of which was in Australia (99 %).

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