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Australias climate change fight is doomed as long as it remains Chinas top coal supplier
2013-09-11 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The newly elected conservative government of Australia, led by incoming prime minister Tony Abbott, has promised to scrap the countrys carbon tax on industrial polluters. That has promoted much teeth-gnashing among environmentalists, but the issue is trivial compared to how much coal Australia exports. Australias year-old tax on carbon was to be a prelude to a greenhouse gas emissions trading market set to launch in July 2014. It would have been the one of the largest carbon markets outside...
Poland to lower emissions with technology, not coal cuts: PM
2013-09-10 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poland will reduce its carbon emissions through new technologies rather than by cutting output of polluting coal, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Poland relies on coal to produce more than 90 percent of its electricity and is home to the European installation that emits the most carbon dioxide - utility PGE's lignite power plant in Belchatow. "We will develop renewable sources of energy, but coal, lignite coal and also shale gas are key. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions will be...
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Development Banks Lend Record $108.9B to Clean Energy as Coal Investment Shrinks
2013-09-10 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Development banks worldwide lent a record $108.9 billion to renewable energy and energy-efficient technology last year as they scale back investment in coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. KfW Group was the biggest lender furnishing $34.4 billion in 2012 followed by China Development Bank Corp. with $26 billion, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a report today that used data from 26 institutions. The state-backed lenders have boosted their financing of clean energy...
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China must manage the conflict between coal and water
2013-09-09 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China faces a serious conundrum. The country, already the world's largest coal consumer, wants to significantly increase its coal electricity generating capacity in order to expand its economy. But this introduces a critical resource concern: more than half of the proposed plants will depend on water resources that are under high or extremely high stress. In July 2012, China proposed building 363 new coal-fired power plants. These plants would have a combined generating capacity exceeding 557...
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Rockefeller on coal industry: "They have no idea"
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette: Yesterday, I spent part of the afternoon down in Bluefield, listening as Sen. Jay Rockefeller talked with black lung victims, miners health advocates and public health professionals about the black lung epidemic across our nations coalfields. Its clear that Sen. Rockefeller is going to spend much of his remaining time in the Senate pushing on this issue and several other key matters relating to coal miner health, safety and financial security. Heres part of our Gazette story on yesterdays event:...
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