je.st
news
Tag: china coal
China coal decline continues as economy flatlines
2015-05-15 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: hinas coal consumption fell in the first four months of 2015, continuing a marked decline that saw use of the polluting fuel fall 2.9% last year. Research by Greenpeace indicates coal use in China dropped by nearly 8% on the same period a year earlier Carbon emissions in the worlds top greenhouse gas polluter are also predicted to have dropped by 5%, an amount equal to the total CO2 output from the UK over the same period. Greenpeaces Energydesk team say they based the findings on a variety...
Tags: china
economy
continues
decline
China could cut coal (mostly) by 2050
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From a climate change perspective, China's carbon footprint is huge: It consumes nearly as much coal as every other country in the world combined. And it's the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter. But it may be possible for China to shake most of its reliance on fossil fuels, in part by producing more than 85 percent of its electricity and more than 60 percent of its total energy needs from renewables by 2050, according to a study published Monday. Showing that it's feasible for China to...
Tags: china
cut
coal
china coal
Coal Boomtowns Fade as China Declares War on Pollution
2015-03-18 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The streets of this northwestern Chinese city were once packed with Ferraris, BMWs and other luxury cars. Now, they are all gone. Average housing prices here have dropped by a quarter in two years. Driving across the city's downtown, you see vacant buildings and empty restaurants. "The business of coal companies here turned south since late 2012," Yang Cheng, a local driver, explained while passing by a closed hotel. "Yulin is a coal boomtown," Yang went on. "Once coal businesses are not...
Tags: china
war
pollution
coal
China Coal Consumption, CO2 Emissions Drop in 2014
2015-03-13 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: New data suggest that China, the worlds #1 CO2 emitter, has succeeded in decoupling coal use from economic output since its coal consumption growth began slowing down in 2012. Data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China indicate that China coal consumption fell by 2.9% in 2014. Also during 2014, Chinas CO2 emissions from fossil fuels fell by 0.7%. This is the first time on record that the countrys emissions have fallen while total energy consumption grew. The graph...
Tags: china
drop
consumption
coal
China to cut coal consumption to reduce pollution: Ministry
2015-03-06 10:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will slash coal consumption by more than 80 million tonnes by 2017 as part of efforts to reduce air pollution, according to an action plan released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Friday. Coal consumption will be reduced by more than 160 million tonnes by 2020, according to the plan.
Tags: china
cut
reduce
ministry