Sentences with phrase «overseas coal projects»

All eyes are on the next big opportunity to put the Commission's call to action into practice: countries must agree to narrowly limit their support of export credits to overseas coal projects through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Governments and global financial institutions are backing billions of dollars in overseas coal projects, despite calls to curb the world's harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

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U.S. coal eventually headed overseas While natural gas prices are currently hovering around $ 2 per million British thermal units, EIA projects that prices will gradually rise to a long - term average of around $ 6 per million Btu.

This new report, carried out by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Green Budget Germany (GBG) monitors the different types of subsidies spent by 11 European governments and the EU from 2014 to 2016 in oil, gas and coal projects in Europe.

The plant, comissioned by local beverage company Froico SA, is expected to save around 2m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over its projected 25 - year lifetime and reduce the French overseas territory's dependence on oil, gas and coal, which generate the majority of its power today.

Financial backer Goldman Sachs pulled out of the project in 2014; since then, domestic and overseas coal markets have continued their precipitous decline.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.