by Gordon Barratt | Jul 26, 2021 | News
The U.S., UK and other countries want world governments to commit to a phaseout of the use and financing of coal-fired power generation, but officials who met at the G20 Environment Ministers Meeting summit in Naples, Italy, this past week ended their talks without an...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 28, 2021 | News
While the world is shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, data on planned new mines indicates the global coal mining industry might not be winding down any time soon. At the 47th summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations in...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 4, 2021 | News
Plans are in place to increase global coal capacity by almost a third of the 2019 total despite global ambitions to abandon it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The new coal capacity of 2277...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 8, 2021 | News
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Amid its coldest winter since 2013, China shows no sign of thawing its coal impasse with key supplier, Australia. Beijing’s insistence on avoiding Australian coal is leading to blackouts in many parts of China over the past...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. Treasury Department recently imposed new sanctions for Chinese companies and vessels accused of skirting United Nations resolutions banning coal shipments from North Korea. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added six new entities — four of them...
