End Coal | Topic Climate Change

A Shrinking Coal Plant Pipeline: Mid-2016 Results from the Global Coal Plant Tracker

Christine Shearer, Aiqun Yu, and Ted Nace

The amount of coal power capacity under development worldwide saw a dramatic drop in the first half of 2016, mainly due to shifting policies in Asia, according to a survey by CoalSwarm’s Global Coal Plant Tracker.

The incompatibility of high-efficient coal technology with 2 degrees scenarios

This report shows that high efficiency coal plants are incompatible with the goal to keep global temperature rises to under 2°C. The global carbon budget and the time remaining to reduce greenhouse gas emissions simply do not allow for replacement of retired coal plants with new more efficient coal plants, let alone construction of new coal plants, regardless of the technology.

Coal’s Lonely Lobbyists: The Growing Isolation of the Coal Mining Industry

This report is the result of a survey of more than twenty companies that have been removed from the National Mining Association and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity’s membership list. It reveals the beginnings of a mass exodus away from the coal mining lobby amid declining coal prices and withdrawal of the industry's social license.

Tags: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Coal Lobby, National Mining Association Topic: Climate Change, Coal Mining Type: Reports Read More

China is hitting its climate targets years ahead of schedule

China’s 13th five-year plan is quite possibly the most important document in the world in setting the pace of acting on climate change.

Tags: climate change, coal, Renewable Energy Topic: Climate Change, Coal Mining, General Type: Articles Read More

Bliss of Ignorance: A Coal Documentary

Through first-hand testimony The Bliss of Ignorance investigates South Africa’s complex relationship with one of the country’s most abundant resources: coal.

Topic: Climate Change, Coal Mining, General Type: Video Read More