2014 2018 Climate Coal 
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2019
This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions. in 2018, faster than at any time since 2010-11. Coal still accounted for the largest share of power generation at 38%. —Bob Dudley, group chief executive.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2018
The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BNEF and lead author of NEO 2018. NEO 2018 sees $11.5 trillion being invested globally in new power generation capacity between 2018 and 2050, with $8.4
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2018
trillion) in 2014. —Dabo Guan, professor in climate change economics at UEA’s School of International Development and co-author on both studies. The success of international climate mitigation efforts may therefore depend on curtailing growth of coal-based energy and emissions in now-industrialising and urbanising countries.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2018
However, because gas, coal and oil are millions of years old, their carbon has a key difference compared to the carbon cycling through plants. We quantified ffCO 2 by measuring radiocarbon ( 14 C) in CO 2 , an accurate fossil-carbon tracer, at nine observation sites in California for three months in 2014-15.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
And it has become clear that not only oil and gas giants are being targeted, after one of the world’s largest mining and commodity trading companies, Glencore, decided to put a limit on its thermal coal investment. Between 2014 and 2018, upstream oil and gas investments have been hit hard, leaving a $1 trillion investment gap.
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