Sentences with phrase «of unabated coal»

-- To accelerate the transition to a competitive, energy efficient low carbon economy and to end the use of unabated coal for power generation.

«This signals the era of unabated coal is coming to an end, and a low carbon future for coal with CCS can now begin,» he said.

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Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»

If I understand MARodger and the the Myhrvold - Caldiera paper correctly, approximately 1 TW of coal is used globally to generate electricity, which if continued to be used unabated, will be responsible for approximately 0.325 deg C in 100 years.

When we pull back to consider the larger picture we see that pollution due to sulfate aerosols continued unabated in the great majority of coal burning plants worldwide, regardless of constraints imposed in the US and Europe.

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).

The report stops short of demanding an early end to unabated coal, but says all new coal plants should be designed to allow for CCS in future, with a plateau and then reduction in coal emissions.

These reserves would result in ~ 2,900 Gt of CO2 if combusted unabated, with approximately two thirds of this coming from the hard coal alone.

High - income countries should commit now to end the building of new unabated coal - fired power generation and accelerate early retirement of existing unabated capacity, while middle - income countries should aim to limit new construction now and halt new builds by 2025.»

«The era of new unabated coal has come to an end,» Miliband said according to The Independent.

The report, titled: New unabated coal is not compatible with keeping global warming below 2 °C, finds that of all the fossil fuels, coal is the easiest to substitute with renewable technologies and that:

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

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.

The study explained that because of this, switching fuels to a different type of fossil fuel «can not be a long - term option as electrical generation from unabated natural gas still emits around four tenths that of coal.»