Coal’s run of success in Europe clobbered by energy policies
Coal’s three-year run of blistering gains in Europe is set to end, clobbered by a combination of weakening demand and energy polices aimed at phasing out the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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Global bankers spurn Trump’s pleas to keep making loans for coal
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to recruit international lenders to his pro-coal crusade.
Coal-hungry Germany not as green as it might seem
A recent return to Leipzig reminded me why “going green” in Germany has been a lot more difficult than the rhetoric would sometimes suggest.
Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland
Negotiators from around the world have opened the United Nations' annual climate change conference in Poland, three years after sealing a landmark deal in Paris that set a goal of keeping global warming well below 2C (3.6F).
Coal pollution to surge in UK if Brexit comes without deal
Britain’s pollution levels would probably rise if the country crashes out of the European Union without a deal, breaching a key pledge Prime Minister Theresa May has made to rein in emissions.
BOOM: Towers blown up at Scotland’s last coal power station
Coal towers at Longannet, Scotland's last coal-fired power station, have been demolished on behalf of ScottishPower.
Where cheap power matters more than risk of climate disaster
Few places better illustrate the tension between pursuing profit and tackling climate change than Australia’s Abbot Point port in northern Queensland.
Consign coal power ‘to the dustbin of history’, urges Scottish renewables body
A Scottish renewables trade body has urged the country's government to consign coal power "to the dustbin of history" if it wants to meet climate and health targets.
UK hits two month coal-free milestone
Britain has gone without coal to generate electricity for the equivalent of more than two months so far this year, the Government has said.
Coal goes from summer boom to bust on ample supply in China
What was meant to be a summer party for coal is quickly turning into something more of a hangover.
Coal plants keep shutting despite Trump’s order to save them
President Donald Trump has ordered a rescue of the nation’s struggling coal and nuclear power industries, but that doesn’t mean utilities are reconsidering the shutdown of unprofitable plants.
RBS vows to stop funding coal-fired power stations, Arctic oil projects
RBS will no longer provide backing for projects that are at odds with the global transition to low carbon.
Coal-free record for British power grid
Britain has seen a new record set for coal-free power generation as the country went more than two days without electricity from the fossil fuel.
UK hits new coal-free record for power grid
Britain has seen a new record set for coal-free power generation as the country went more than two days without electricity from the fossil fuel.
Mining boss blasts government’s ‘perverse’ decision to block open cast application
A mining boss has branded the Government's decision to block an open-cast coal mine "perverse" and said it would have kept £200 million within the UK economy.
Replacing wood burning energy for coal will worsen climate, claim MIT
Researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management have found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire - which has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies - actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.
Opinion: Insurers need to pull the plug on coal
Coal power plants with a capacity of more than 800 Gigawatt – 10 times the capacity of the whole British electricity system – are currently under construction or in the pipeline. A recent UNEP report has found that none of these plants can be built and existing coal capacity must be retired early if the world is to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
Black day for coal as MPs confirm final closure date of UK plants
All polluting coal-fired power plants will be closed by October 2025, the Government has confirmed.
Renewables, nuclear provide more electricity than gas and coal for first time
Low-carbon technologies generated half of the UK's electricity in 2017, outstripping the combined power from coal and gas for the first time, analysis shows.
Opinion: Coal’s resilience today will prove its ultimate downfall
Newcastle, the Australian port that's the biggest export harbor for thermal coal, is planning a shift away from the commodity that generates the overwhelming majority of its trade volumes BHP Billiton Ltd., one of the world's largest coal miners, is considering quitting the industry's global trade body and perhaps the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because it can't reconcile its policies on climate change and energy policy with their more coal-friendly stances National Australia Bank Ltd. promised not to lend to new thermal coal projects and ING Groep NV pledged to reduce its exposure to coal generators to close to zero by 2025 China Merchants Bank Co. joined the lengthening line of lenders disavowing advances for Adani Enterprises Ltd.'s Carmichael project, one of the largest such developments worldwide but one that's highly unlikely to go ahead South Korea, one of the world's biggest coal importers, announced plans to phase out coal by 2079 and sharply cut its use by 2030 The International Energy Agency said that coal demand would remain essentially flat until 2022 -- particularly striking given that in recent years it has tended to overestimate coal's prospects
US fires up coal deal with Ukraine, bullish comments on Russia
US coal will be heating homes in the Ukraine this winter after a landmark deal was struck between the two countries.
UK has first day without relying on coal for power since 1880s
The U.K. had its first full day without burning coal to make electricity since the Industrial Revolution more than a century ago, according to grid operator National Grid Plc.
UK set for first coal-free day since industrial revolution
The UK could see its first full day without generating any electricity from coal on Friday, National Grid has said.
No new coal power plants for Europe post 2020
The European power sector will not invest in any new coal plants after 2020, it has announced, striking another blow for the struggling fossil fuel.
UK emissions lowered as coal use more than halves
The UK’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by almost 6% in 2016 after coal use more than halved to record lows, analysis suggests.