The UK was among the countries which signed up to the Powering Past Coal alliance, launched at the Bonn climate talks. But with coal generating just two percent of power in August, meeting the target of 2025 is all to easy. For other European countries - Poland and Spain included - phasing out coal will be an even greater challenge. NATALIE BENNETT investigates.
… A just transition from coal demands a cross-regional sharing of … Natalie Bennett | 4th January 2018 Comment Coal Climate Change Transition Local Economies … which signed up to the Powering Past Coal alliance, launched at the Bonn climate …
The buzz around the hydrogen economy is shifting up a gear. But is hydrogen the spearhead technology in a green transition, or an elaborate bait-and-switch orchestrated by Big Oil and Gas?
… produced from fossil gas (methane) and coal (brown or black coal) respectively—a process that, for every … into the grid to replace power from gas or coal plants . A similar but much more harmful …
Can we reframe our arguments against fossil fuel giants and be led by creative visions for just and sustainable communities?
… us, by trapping gas and laying down oil and coal. “Leave it in the ground,” is the … as potentially making gas as bad as coal in terms of the climate emergency. But I … impact of fossil fuels. Just ask northern coal communities in England, and the South of …
The leaders gathered at COP26, with the British government to the fore, remain in the thrall of technology fetishism.
… includes his own brother-in-law, Matt “King Coal” Ridley . Morphing Paterson claims that … enrichment, waged war on the striking coal miners? Not a bit of it. Johnson stuffed … as Andrea Leadsom, and supporters of the coal industry such as Priti Patel. His …
Exporting emissions is not the same as cutting them.
… part of the story. Goods from largely coal-fired Eastern European states are also a … wind, and a commendable drive to get rid of coal. It’s come in spite of disastrous, …
The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.
… the hole is climate breakdown, stop digging coal. Green growthers pretend to recognise this, they say we must stop digging coal, but they assume business as usual can … causing massive greenhouse production – only coal, oil and gas are worse. But with new …
The 'Absolute Zero' report demonstrates how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitments. In doing so, it debunks technological utopianism - but what of economy and class?
… blanket of techno-optimism". So, oil and coal can be burnt because we’ll capture and … ore mining, the solar panels produced using coal power? JA: I think it’s important to … Switching our electricity generation from coal to gas has been a good step in reducing …
Degrowth and its opponents recognize the necessity of mass movements and system change to address the climate emergency.
… — in land, for example, or in the coal-powered electricity used to produce much … (CO2). As a source of carbon emissions, only coal, oil and gas are worse, and while … power behind CCS are the oil giants but also coal. In May this year, the National Mining …
Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - or the party of the oil industrial complex? A short history.
… than in the other European states —and to the coal firms too . On climate change, the talk … These would “reduce emissions from gas and coal power stations by up to 90 percent.” It …
The Shock of the Anthropocene has been translated from French into English and published by Verso. NATALIE BENNETT, the former Green Party leader, explains how it is an important, informative and interesting book which all ecologists should read.
… rely on water power, but chose the new coal-fired steam engines, because it didn’t …
Boris Johnson’s calculated error: climate migration and civilisation collapse, from Ancient Rome to COP26.
… on similar material foundations: concrete , coal, and cars. In its climate diplomacy, … and the European and US banks that fund Asian coal . An increasingly potent form of …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… Southeast Asia; British hegemony, through the coal/steam power and plantation revolutions; … eras,” a particular hydrocarbon — timber, coal, and oil, respectively — was “freely …
Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.
… who champions the continued burning of coal and yearns to stamp out “ the … there’s the potential for bringing together a coalition of community groups, climate groups, …
With European climate policy in post-Brexit lockdown, and US delegates gripped by uncertainty (even for their own jobs) following Trump's election, a new global climate leader is emerging, writes Natalie Bennett. China is stepping up as the country with the finance, technology and industrial might to take forward the Paris Agreement - and for its companies to reap the benefits.
… solar, in being cost-competitive with coal and gas, may pull American companies and …
On Monday Cameron was waxing lyrical on climate change at COP21 in Paris, writes Natalie Bennett. But his true colours will be revealed tomorrow as a long established anti-fracking camp in Cheshire is set for eviction: all part of the plan for a new generation of gas-fired power stations that will blow the UK's emissions targets.
… the end of the use of disastrously polluting coal for electricity generation in Britain (if …
'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'
… by the left of the US Democrats, by a coalition of left parties in Europe , and by … advocates of GND and degrowth alike seek coalition with sections of the capitalist … say, the Kentucky miners who are blocking coal trains to demand back pay? At first …