Sentences with phrase «high reliance on coal»

Third, China and the United States both have historically high reliance on coal for generating electricity.

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There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.

South Australia has high and increasing reliance on renewables, is close to phasing out coal, and has limited interconnection capacity.

More dramatically, fear of radiation led to extraordinary safety requirements for nuclear power plants, far in excess of controls imposed on other high - risk industrial facilities, which made nuclear power less cost - competitive and led to more reliance on coal.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

Other measures have sought to decrease reliance on coal and other energy sources that produce high levels of carbon pollution.

Germany's heavy reliance on coal — the highest in the EU — is very likely to continue indefinitely despite the nation's stated commitments to the Paris Agreement and CO2 emissions reductions.