Solving the coal puzzle

by | December 18, 2019 | Coal, Europe | 0 Comments

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

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Playing With Fire

by | December 15, 2019 | Coal, ETS, Europe | 0 Comments

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

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The A-B-C of BCAs

by | December 3, 2019 | Carbon Pricing, Climate Governance, ETS, Europe | 0 Comments

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

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

by | November 13, 2019 | Coal | 0 Comments

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

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Coal Free Kingdom

by | November 13, 2019 | Coal, UK | 0 Comments

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

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

by | July 31, 2019 | Carbon Pricing, Coal, ETS | 0 Comments

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

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The UK Capacity Market – Auction results

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Is the Capacity Market slowing UK power decarbonisation? Read our analysis.

“With £293m being paid to old coal, the capacity market looks more like a subsidy scheme to keep heavy polluters online, rather than as a mechanism to encourage new investment – only 5% of auction revenues will go to new investment. It seems the capacity mechanism is actually slowing decarbonisation of the UK power sector.” – Dave Jones, Sandbag

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December 31, 2014