Sentences with phrase «on coal phase»

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The phase - out plans apply only to so - called unabated coal, meaning a company that has the technology to reduce emissions can carry on generating power with coal.

Macron has also said he wants to phase out France's use of coal power in five years and reduce its reliance on nuclear power to 50 % by 2025.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

On a tour abroad, amid an eighteen - day conditioning phase, Pochettino made the players walk barefoot over burning - hot coal.

«Given the fact Cuomo made a commitment that New York was phasing out coal, why would you buy coal plants when the writing is on the wall?»

The new Minnkota transmission line seeks to phase out all of Minnesota's dependence on the coal - fired Young 2 plant by 2024.

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.»

Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.

Additionally, France also wants to phase out gas exploration on French territory and stop burning coal to produce electricity by 2022.

Some of the policies examined include the B.C. carbon tax, Ontario's Green Energy and Economy Act and phase - out of coal - fired power, Quebec's and Nova Scotia's regulatory cap on emissions, public transit strategies in Ontario, and federal fuel - efficiency standards for cars.

«For example, adopting best - in - Canada policies on renewable energy, staged phase - out of coal power and pricing carbon pollution in Saskatchewan and Alberta would be three times more effective in reducing carbon pollution than current policies.

The report includes a new emissions forecast: Oregon will miss its 2020 target, and is not on track for its 2035 and 2050 goals, even with an updated Renewable Portfolio Standard and phase - out of coal - produced electricity.

The American Lung Association supports more stringent controls on air emissions from electricity production, and in particular the phase out on coal - fired generation to enable electric vehicles used across the country to contribute to overall reductions in air emissions.

The UK government announced on Friday how it expects to phase out coal generation by 2025 — by making it impossible for plants to generate without as - yet unproven carbon capture and storage technology.

In 2006, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative majority embarked on a program to double renewable electric generation to 20 percent while phasing out coal.

The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on Germany's coal exit — the so - called coal commission — discusses the country's phase - out - path, indicates the economy ministry (BMWi) in reply to a parliamentary inquiry by the Greens, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau.

Both The Globe and Mail and The New York Times are reporting on recent comments from Jim Prentice, Canada's minister of the environment, about phasing out coal - fired electricity in Canada:

«There has been no pressure on U.S. authors,» said one U.S. scientist, who is now helping to write a United Nations report that will call for coal to be «phased out rapidly» to limit global warming — a direct clash with Trump's pro-coal agenda.

With Michael Bloomberg's grant bolstering the Sierra Club's well - organized program to phase out coal, we can now imagine a coal - free United States on the horizon.

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

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

And this completely turns around the argumentation on a» business as usual coal phase out» until 2030.

E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing coal plants have been marked for retirement over the coming years.

0/3: The UK is on - track to coal phase - out by 2025: renewables replaces coal, no new gas bridge, the lights stay on.

UCS's results suggest that Gulf may be in a unique position to phase out coal power without adding to Florida's over-reliance on natural gas.

Reliance on the EUETS is unlikely to lead to a coal phase out, let alone an accelerated one, because the carbon price is so low.

The newly created business and energy department is set to consult this year on plans to phase out coal power completely by 2025.

The qualities I'm looking for in climate hawks are a willingness to call for a price on carbon, a willingness to call for phasing out and ending a reliance on coal, and strong support for renewable energy, for solar and wind in particular.

Providing Australia's coal industry a transition phase through «set - aside» or «non-production» payments will give the industry time to either wind down its assets and exit the industry or to bring on line carbon capture and storage.

Coal, on the other hand, has larger reserves and the authors conclude that «the only realistic way to sharply curtail CO2 emissions is phase out coal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.&raCoal, on the other hand, has larger reserves and the authors conclude that «the only realistic way to sharply curtail CO2 emissions is phase out coal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.&racoal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.»

The statement also said that the company will promote an industrial strategy focused on boosting investment in renewable sources, energy efficiency, smart grids and storage systems, as well as «gradually phasing out further investment in coal».

The media reports on every wind farm or turbine being erected as if this satisfies the terifying prospect of phasing out oil, gas and coal in favour of as yet infant technologies that have yet to be deployed to the masses.

They argue that such a path is feasible, but requires a prompt moratorium on new coal use that does not capture CO2 and phase - out of existing coal emissions by 2030.

Responsible policymaking requires a rising price on carbon emissions that would preclude emissions from most remaining coal and unconventional fossil fuels and phase down emissions from conventional fossil fuels.

More than half of this potential is from a handful of categories — solar and wind energy, efficient passenger cars, afforestation and halting deforestation — and requires quickly reducing reliance on, and soon phasing out, coal - fired power not equipped with carbon capture and storage.

Our power generation is on a knife edge, a cold winter would cause enormous problems as we have no spare capacity due to coal being phased out.

He's wrong: policy should be on the supply side, phase out fossil fuels (petroleum, coal, natural gas) and substitute solar, wind, hydro and nuclear instead.

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a new analysis, which shows that instead of aggressive over-reliance on natural gas by utilities as they phase out coal plants, a far better bet for achieving a clean energy future is to greatly expand the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Stranded value is defined as the difference between the NPV of cashflow in the B2DS (which phases - out all coal power by 2030) and the NPV of cashflow in the BAU scenario (which is based on retirements announced in company reports).

Based on company reports and including member state phase - out policies, only 27 % of operating coal units in the EU are planning to close before 2030.

That's because, as nuclear plants are slowly being phased out, Germany is relying more and more on cheap coal.

On Nov. 15, St. Louis - based Patriot Coal agreed to phase out its mountaintop excavations and redirect its efforts back to underground mining.

«This was not just great for me personally but I think also for some people living in Lusatia: I joined an info point at the market square of Welzow, where I invited the local citizens to join the demonstration to phase out of coal on the Saturday.

The country is aiming to phase out nuclear power and coal by 2022 and rely on 80 per cent renewable energy by 2050.

Alberta's climate change strategy includes a tax on carbon, a cap on oilsands emissions, a phasing out of coal - fired electricity and an emphasis on wind power.

«From our industries point of view, there are certainly a lot of details that will need to be filled in on multiple different fronts, but in general we're quite supportive of the use of natural gas and the phase out of coal,» CAPP president Tim McMillan said.

«Wind energy's major cost declines have, and will continue to be, critical to opening up new opportunities throughout Canada — whether it is to support the coal phase - out, or to fill an emerging power supply gap as nuclear power plants are refurbished in Ontario, or to help the northeast United States reduce its reliance on fossil - fuel powered generation through clean electricity imports from Quebec or Atlantic Canada.