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But today, even as markets respond bullishly to Trump’s “business-friendly” pledges – not just deregulation and tax cuts, but also a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan that would include reviving
coal
– business leaders have remained cautious.
Business leaders need to show Trump that they are not cheerleaders for coal, pollution, and global warming.
The knee-jerk rejection of nuclear power by some EU member countries has led to sharp increases in
coal
usage.
Large industrial subsidies – for example, to the
coal
industry – amount to nothing but giveaways to Yanukovych’s supporters and should be eliminated immediately.
On the one hand, China has voiced opposition to North Korea’s missile tests, and suspended
coal
imports from the North under a United Nations Security Council resolution.
Greece is also the canary in the
coal
mine for the euro zone, where all the PIIGS economies (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) suffer from the twin problems of public-debt sustainability and external-debt sustainability.
Judging by Europe’s experience – from the creation of the European
Coal
and Steel Community in 1951 to the establishment of the European Union in 1993 – there is no need to rush the integration process.
He has also vowed to repeal limits on fracking, open up more public lands to
coal
mining, and expand oil and gas production in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
After all, its PM2.5 levels are considerably higher than in the US, and consumption of fossil fuels, especially coal, is far greater.
Also, get rid of all sector subsidies from agriculture to
coal
and shipbuilding and the EU’s myriad other inefficiencies.
Likewise, steel production can be decarbonized by applying CCS or using hydrogen produced by electrolysis as the reduction agent, rather than coking
coal.
Currently,
coal
accounts for about a quarter of the country’s energy consumption.
Today,
coal
and natural gas provide more than two thirds of the country’s electricity needs, with renewables accounting for 5%.
Indonesia depends less on exports than its Asian peers (let alone Russia), and its asset markets (timber, palm oil, and coal, in particular) have attracted major foreign investment.
A century ago, the world used
coal
and a relatively small volume of oil at the rate of 0.7 TW, but in 2008 established commercial energies – fossil fuels and primary (water and nuclear) electricity – flow at the rate of nearly 15 TW.
Retrenchment and shutdowns at gold and platinum mines –as well as the expiration in June of wage agreements in the gold and
coal
industries – will almost certainly spark more labor unrest, especially considering the growing rivalry between the ANC-aligned National Union of Mineworkers and the more militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.
In China, renewables are expanding rapidly, and
coal
consumption fell by 2.9% year on year in 2014.
China uses coal, a particularly CO2-intensive fuel, for 70% of its commercial energy supply, while
coal
accounts for a third of America’s total energy.
Coal
is cheap and widely available in China, which is important as the country scrambles for energy resources to keep its many energy-intensive industries running.
Privatization of India’s bloated public sector (from massive
coal
and steel enterprises to the loss-making national carrier Air India) has been slow to get off the ground.
Carbon Majors and Climate JusticeBONN – A groundbreaking study published last November revealed that the activities of a mere 90 producers of coal, oil and gas, and cement – dubbed the “carbon majors” – have led to 63% of all CO2 emissions since the Industrial Revolution.
It seems only fair and reasonable, therefore, that all fossil-fuel entities, but especially the carbon majors, pay a levy on each ton of coal, barrel of oil, or cubic meter of gas they produce to a new International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, which would help to fund efforts to address the worst effects of climate change.
In the coming months, the world’s small, open economies will function as canaries in the
coal
mine for the global trade system.
Instead of generating power using human and animal muscles, we developed machines that could liberate sunlight stored in
coal
and oil.
According to the International Energy Agency, global investment in energy supply currently amounts to $1.6 trillion annually, and 70% of it is still based on oil, coal, or gas.
Both have reaffirmed their commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions under the Paris accord, and both object to Trump’s obstructive crusade on behalf of the
coal
industry.
We need to find new ways to produce and use energy, meet our food needs, transport ourselves, and heat and cool our homes that will allow us to cut back on oil, gas, coal, nitrogen-based fertilizer, and other sources of the climate-changing greenhouse gases.
Stanford University recently decided to stop investing in
coal
companies – a move that could spur other institutions to respond to burgeoning student-led campaigns aimed at convincing their universities to divest from fossil-fuel companies.
The
coal
industry is not safe even in China, the world’s largest CO2 emitter and a leading source of demand for fossil fuels.
Over the last two years, policy action to address air pollution and water scarcity, together with slowing economic growth and declining clean-technology prices, have caused the share prices of major Chinese
coal
companies to decline by more than 40%.
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