There are hopeful signs that China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is becoming less reliant on the polluting coal that powered its rapid economic rise, writes Kieran Cooke. Great news for China, and the planet - but worrying for coal exporters!
… China - is it kicking its coal habit? Kieran Cooke | 12th September 2014 News Coal China Climate Change Energy Renewables … is becoming less reliant on the polluting coal that powered its rapid economic rise, …
Beijing has called a halt to new coal mines and will close hundreds of existing operations, writes Kieran Cooke. The move reflects the slowing economy, falling energy demand, concerns over air pollution and climate change, and the massive rollout of renewables.
… China clamps down on coal mining Kieran Cooke | 4th January 2015 News China Energy Coal Renewables china-coal-cut.jpg Beijing has called a halt to new …
A new report names the 30 biggest sources of greenhouse gases in the EU, writes Kieran Cooke. Coal-fired power plants are undermining Europe's long-term targets on emissions reductions - and the UK and Germany lead the list of shame.
… 22nd July 2014 News Climate Change Pollution Coal Fossil Fuels Energy EU UK Germany … gases in the EU, writes Kieran Cooke. Coal-fired power plants are undermining … most polluting energy plants - all powered by coal. Germany and the UK tie for first place …
Australia has been growing rich from exporting coal to China. But as Kieran Cooke reports, China's renewable energy revolution may soon bring the 'good times' to an end.
… Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Energy Coalcoal-train-australia.png Australia has been growing rich from exporting coal to China. But as Kieran Cooke reports, …
Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate Change … heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, … in the works - and just stopped its first coal train. Australia's emissions of …
China's success in driving down its fossil fuel burn will raise chances of a success at this year's Paris climate talks, writes Kieran Cooke - but first the world must appreciate the changes China is making, and how clean energy is catalysing a broader economic transformation.
… | 15th June 2015 News Energy Renerwables Coal Fossil Fuels China India Unfccc … the world economy - say that China's use of coal, which is by far the most polluting … official statistics, the report says China's coal consumption fell by nearly 3% last year, …
An interview with World Resources Institute decarbonisation specialist, Kelly Levin.
… we thought to a lot of these tipping points. Coal NB: One of the biggest causes seems to be use of coal in terms of attributable source. Does the … any proposed strategy for getting away from coal faster? KL: The good news is that the …
Wind generates almost a twentieth of America's power, writes Kieran Cooke - and that's set to double in five years, despite the phase-out of tax credits. Now the main constraint to future expansion is power line capacity.
… for those who suffer the toxic impacts of coal mining, and power station fumes - and for … of 2013, although the oil, gas, fracking and coal industries - all major GHG emitters - …
The IPCC's 'Representative Concentration Pathways' are based on fantasy technology that must draw massive volumes of CO2 out of the atmosphere late this century, writes Nick Breeze - an unjustified hope that conceals a very bleak future for Earth, and humanity.
… claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. … iron ore on that scale. We don't even produce coal, oil or gas on that scale. Iron ore is … claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. …
Higher oil production and falling demand are creating big problems for the fossil fuel industry, writes Kieran Cooke. Risk-averse investors, spooked by drastic oil price falls, are turning away from the sector in search of more secure returns.
… in oil prices, and in the big declines in coal prices on the world market. Kieran …
Japan’s lack of climate ambition - as the fifth largest global greenhouse gas emitter - is a risk to long-term global security.
… billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. If the level of … billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. …
James Hansen is making his second visit to the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, COP23 in Bonn to declare the that the Paris Agreement “ambition” is a “hoax”. NICK BREEZE meets the man still raising the climate alarm.
… has to be across the board: oil, gas and coal. Not some cap and trade gimmick which …
At the UN climate summit in New York today, institutional investors managing $24 trillion of assets are demanding stronger, more ambitious policies on climate change, writes Kieran Cooke. These include an effective carbon price and an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
… fossil fuel companies in the oil, gas and coal sectors have successfully fought off …
'I'm more worried about human stupidity than I am about artificial intelligence!'
… impacts is quoted by the Loss & Damage Coalition to be $400 billion per annum . COP … With emissions still rising and all the major coal, oil and gas producers in the world, …
Who's the UK's foremost politician setting the agenda on climate change issues? Green MP Caroline Lucas, of course. Nick Breeze caught up with her at a COP21 event at the French National Assembly in Paris. The fossil fuel industry is in its last throes, she told him - but it's fighting back hard, and politicians are giving out very mixed messages: saying one thing, while doing another.
… 1.5C - so long as the world is still building coal and gas burning power stations and other …
Professor Chris Rapley discusses the Climate Change Act 10 years on - and warns we are not acting on a 'scale or pace' to stay beneath the crucial 2ºC of warming. In this interview with NICK BREEZE, he balances the inadequacies of climate policy with the growing willingness of many people to take action
… mean, we have been through periods were coal contributed nothing to the UK electricity …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… climate changes that are a result of burning coal, oil and gas, nor for ocean …