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 …
Clean Coal Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technology of stripping carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuels and then burying it as a liquid underground.
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The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
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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 …
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 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 …
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
… borough council is replacing its old coal-burning power stations and finding a use … to put up with the pollution that came with coal – they also have lower fuel bills. Whilst coal costs 1.8 pence per kW hour, biomass in …
The UK has been described as the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind, with some 50 TWh of onshore and at least 450 TWh of offshore power available every year, well in excess of our current electricity demand.
… per cent, for gas power plants 60 per cent, coal plants 62 per cent and the historical …
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… had been home to a former gasworks, producing coal gas. Initially it was privately owned, …
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… had been home to a former gasworks, producing coal gas. Initially it was privately owned, …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
… by the nanoparticles of carbon, produced by coal fires, that caused precipitation of … creates smog. So we stopped the burning of coal and, bingo, that stopped smog. So we have …
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 …