The European Union will “vastly overshoot” its Paris climate pledges unless its coal emissions are completely phased out within 15 years, a stress test of the industry has ...
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Tag: Coal
The Paris agreement on climate change has now come into force, marking the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises. Howev...
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We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year: Its 2015 and Thursday, August 13, is Earth Overshoot Day, when resource use is expected to outstrip the capacity f...
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Planning decisions on the UK’s full scale fracking have been deferred for eight weeks by Lancashire county council (LCC), which was due to decide this week on two proposals...
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Burning wood in power stations might actually be good for trees - so says Professor Robert Malmsheimer at the State University of New York. A number of environmentalists an...
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Coal overtook gas to become the UK's dominant fuel in 2012 as cheap US coal imports meant that 39% of UK electricity came from coal - up from 29% in 2011, and gas dropped f...
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Plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent have been shelved for at least three years. The German owners E.ON has delayed the scheme until 2016 bec...
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Article in the Times (18/02/09) by Carl Mortishead
If you flick a switch today, the light goes on because of coal. Almost half the power generated in Britain on Tuesday ca...
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“The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rap...
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