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Measurements from Beijing show that upwards of 16% of the air pollution comes from coal.
As the South African finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, explained, “to sustain the growth rates we need to create jobs, we have no choice but to build new generating capacity – relying on what, for now, remains our most abundant and affordable energy source: coal.”
In South Africa, where coal powers 90% of electricity, the cost is just $0.09 per kWh.
True, electricity from coal will cause extra air pollution.
Even assuming (unrealistically) that coal produces all of the world’s air pollution, we could generate 250 kWh/year with coal for every one of the three billion energy-poor people and still end up with lower air pollution.
Moreover, it is easy and fairly cheap to cut coal pollution 90% or more with scrubbers.
For many opponents of coal, the issue is global warming.
In today's world, economic prosperity comes not from natural resources or production of industrial goods such as coal and steel, but from the production of new ideas and new products.
Exports of natural resources, like iron and coal, account for roughly 20% of Australia’s GDP and dominate its economic relationship with China.
Without the proper assistance, poor countries risk becoming locked into reliance on coal and oil for at least another generation, putting the entire planet in danger of out-of-control climate change.
It simply means that when Great Britain installs a wind turbine, it becomes cheaper to burn coal in Portugal or Poland.
Likewise, falling banana and oil prices will create the same political challenges for the leftist firebrand Rafael Correa in Ecuador, as will falling coffee, oil, and coal prices for Colombia’s centrist president, Juan Manuel Santos.
In the past decade, the US has reduced its emissions more than any other country, because the fracking revolution has allowed for inexpensive natural gas to replace coal in electricity generation, while preventing a price backlash against renewables.
And as other countries begin to phase out coal by producing or importing cheap, clean natural gas, they, too, will reduce their emissions.
The city’s political leaders promise that this strategy for attaining carbon neutrality “provides an overall positive economic picture and will lead to economic benefits for Copenhageners” based on the expectation that prices for conventional energy sources like coal, oil, and gas will rise in the coming years.
But the often-heard justification for this assumption – that humanity is rapidly depleting these scarce resources – is inconsistent with real-world events, as innovation has effectively expanded oil, gas, and coal reserves to unprecedented levels in recent years.
Look at the long-term price trends of coal and gas, which power the vast majority of global electricity production.
Despite a recent increase, real coal prices have been trending downward since the 1950s.
There is clearly plenty of cheap coal for hundreds of years, and with new cracking technology, gas is becoming more abundant.
Imagine if, thanks to wind and solar, China could wean itself from coal, which accounts for 85% of its carbon emissions.
There are also industrial factories spewing smoke, charcoal braziers on the sidewalks keeping pavement dwellers warm, coal stoves used by roadside chaiwallahs (tea-sellers), and even the agricultural stubble burned by farmers in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana.
Consider, for example, oil, gas, and coal.
In order to provide more energy to meet development goals without accelerating global warming, there must be a shift to a new energy infrastructure built around renewables (of which the most significant are probably solar power, wind, and biofuels), cleaner coal, and carbon capture and storage.
It would be unfortunate if China and India were to impoverish themselves by ceasing to burn coal, only to have the resulting decrease of snowfall over Greenland and Antarctica cause sea levels to rise faster.
Monnet had some knowledge of coal and steel, having been involved, as a League of Nations official, in finding a settlement for the question of Upper Silesia after WWI.
High on the list of supply-side policies is eliminating some of the excess capacity of state-owned firms in the steel and coal industries.
Europe has come a long way since 1951 and the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the EU.
Indeed, the EIB’s fossil-fuel lending grew from €2.8 billion in 2007 to €5 billion in 2010, including new coal units in Germany and Slovenia.
Yet a closer look shows that €6.7 billion of the €16 billion that the EIB loaned for fossil fuels went to coal, gas, and oil-fired plants, both inside and outside the EU – not to EU energy-security projects.
Coal investments must be stopped immediately, and a plan to phase out all fossil-fuel lending should be prepared and implemented as soon as possible.
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