Forecasting future world coal production is a complex task, incorporating considerations of the amounts and the qualities of known and projected coal reserves, the ability to
increase coal production capacity and the growth of coal demand.
Not exact matches
According to GBI, China's
increase in
coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large
production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and
production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.
The scale of the
increase, which only includes major mines, reflects Beijing's aim to put 860 million tonnes of new
coal production capacity into operation over the five years to 2015, more than the entire annual output of India.
In the US,
coal producers
increased exports to counter the domestic downturn and sought to expand overseas
production capacity which could supply the booming Asian region.
«Action taken to
increase Australia's
capacity for fossil fuel
production — such as
increasing export
capacity or commissioning new
coal mines — is difficult to reconcile with the goals of the Paris Agreement,» the report says.