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UK to Shut Down All Coal Power Plants by 2025, But Will Remain Fossil Fuel Dependent
2015-11-19 14:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The world`s wealthiest nations appear to be slowly acknowledging the destruction that decades of coal burning has wrought on the environment, though campaigners are warning that pledges to curb subsidies and close power plants still fall substantially short of the "radical shift" necessary to keep global warming beneath the stated goal of 2°C. UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd on Wednesday announced that her country would close all coal-fired power plants by 2025, making it first major global economy...
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Coal pleads its case against Clean Power Plan to state lawmakers
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Things were already pretty bad for Pennsylvania`s coal industry, and the EPA`s new Clean Power Plan will make things worse. That`s the message from industry to a joint hearing of the state`s House and Senate coal caucuses on Tuesday. "We talk about the perfect storm, what we are in the midst of is the perfect nightmare for coal," said Emily Medine, a coal consultant with Energy Ventures Analysis. Medine said the coal industry has taken a hit from low natural gas prices, which has displaced...
OECD agrees deal to restrict financing for coal technology
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Members of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) struck a deal on Tuesday to restrict subsidies used to export technology for coal-fired power plants, ending months of wrangling. Representatives of the world's richest countries agreed a deal to end export credits for inefficient coal plant technology to take effect from Jan. 1, 2017, with a review in 2019 that could allow the deal to be strengthened. This week's talks at the Paris-based OECD were viewed as a final chance...
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Britain to Shutdown All Coal Plants by 2025
2015-11-18 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The British government on Wednesday called for the closing of all coal-fired power plants in the country by 2025, and proposed that use of the plants be restricted two years before that. The move, announced in advance of the United Nations conference on climate change set to open in Paris on Nov. 30, appeared aimed at showing Britain as a leader in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The push came as the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said in a report that the bloc...
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Radical plan proposes power generators pay close dirty coal competitors
2015-11-18 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Power generators would be forced to pay for the closure of a competitors dirty brown-coal fired plant under a radical plan that could help Australia slow the continued increase in electricity sector greenhouse emissions without a carbon price or expensive government subsidies. The idea from Australian National University academics Frank Jotzo and Salim Mazouz offers the government hope of meeting the long-term emission reduction targets it will promise in Paris and provides the energy sector...
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