Solving the coal puzzle

Lessons from four years of coal phase-out policy in Europe

Playing With Fire

An assessment of company plans to burn biomass in EU coal power stations

The A-B-C of BCAs

An overview of the issues around introducing Border Carbon Adjustments in the EU

Coal mine methane leaks are worse for climate change than all shipping and aviation

New IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal mine methane leaks add up to a third to emissions from coal

Coal Free Kingdom

UK election manifestos should commit to take the UK fully coal-free, including in industry, finance, and domestic heating – ready for next year’s COP26 in Glasgow

The cash cow has stopped giving: Are Germany’s lignite plants now worthless?

Our new research finds German lignite gross profits collapsed 54% so far in 2019. With lignite now loss-making, the case for Gov. compensation has collapsed

Financing Deep Decarbonisation in Industry

To promote CCS and other methods of deep industrial decarbonisation, a combination of additional Member State and EU support will be needed, well beyond the proposed Modernisation and NER 400 funds. A supporting policy should be explored based on Contracts For Difference (CFD), similar to the UK’s electricity CFDs, but pegged to the carbon price rather than the wholesale electricity price. This could fund any technology which permanently stored or abated CO2 emissions.

Skills

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June 4, 2015