Home UK: no new funding for coal-fired power stations abroad
 

Keywords :   


UK: no new funding for coal-fired power stations abroad

2013-11-20 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: British taxpayers' money will no longer be used to build coal-fired power stations in developing countries, the energy secretary Ed Davey pledged on Wednesday, as the fortnight-long United Nations climate talks entered their final phase. The UK has provided about $500m (300m) for such projects in the past seven years, mostly through its funding for development banks, according to research by the US Natural Resources Defence Council. Ending that is meant to encourage countries to move to low-carbon...

Tags: power funding stations abroad

Category:Electronics and Electrical

Latest from this category

All news

»
24.11S
24.11
24.115
24.11SR
24.11 RC24.4.5
24.11115+128717dz
24.11lavaSUKALA 3
24.11508A
More »