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Credit Suisse vows to stop financing new coal-fired power plants
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
"The bank has decided to no longer provide any form of financing specifically related to the development of new coal-fired power plants," Switzerland's number t...
Banks gave $745 billion to groups planning new coal power plants: NGOs
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The report's release comes as world leaders met this week in Madrid for a 12-day UN climate summit, where they are expected to hammer out some of the details of...
Financial groups gave $745 billion for new coal power plants: NGOs
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
The amount was calculated using data covering both lending and underwriting between January 2017 and September 2019 for all 258 coal plant developers identified...
Policy shift: Insurers blacklist coal
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Coal exit policies have been announced by 17 of the world's biggest insurers controlling 46 percent of the reinsurance market and 9.5 percent of the primary ins...
Campaigners occupy German coal mines in climate protest
Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)
Wearing masks and dressed in white, hundreds of campaigners stormed into the Jaenschwalde Ost mine while another 450 sat down on a railroad connected to the sit...
S. Korea to suspend 25% of coal plants to fight pollution
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
The world's 11th largest economy is struggling to address growing public concern over airborne particles and pollutants, known as "fine dust", that have raised ...
Coal power set for record fall in 2019: analysis
Nov 25, 2019 (AFP)
This "historic" drop would be equal to 300 Terawatt hours (TWh), or more than the combined coal-based electricity output of Germany, Spain and Britain last year...
China adds coal power despite climate pledge: report
Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)
China built enough new plants between January 2018 and June 2019 -- nearly 43 gigawatts worth of capacity -- to cancel out the decrease in the rest of the world...
15 killed in north China mine blast
Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)
Nine other people were injured by the gas explosion on Monday afternoon, which took place in a mine owned by Shanxi Pingyao Fengyan Coal & Coke Group Co, accord...
Asia must quit 'coal addiction': UN chief
Nov 02, 2019 (AFP)
The warning follows fresh research this week predicting that several Asian megacities, including Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai, are at risk of extreme fl...
European coal plants burning cash: activists
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Financial analysts at Carbon Tracker, who created models to analyse the operating economics of all European coal power plants, said losses could hit 6.6 billion...
Australia blocks 'unacceptable' South Korean coal mine
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
Korean electricity giant KEPCO proposed the mine for New South Wales' Bylong Valley -- a four-hour drive northwest of Sydney -- promising more than 2,000 jobs a...
Greenpeace activists charged over Polish coal protest
Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)
"Prosecutors charged 28 people for participating in a peaceful operation," Greenpeace Polska spokeswoman Katarzyna Guzek told AFP. The activists on Wednesday cl...
Greenpeace blocks unloading of coal at Polish port
Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)
"At dawn, 29 Greenpeace activists climbed two cranes at a coal terminal of the Gdansk port," Greenpeace Polska spokeswoman Katarzyna Guzek told AFP. The activis...
Polish guards board Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in coal clash
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
The overnight intervention by a special maritime unit was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the guards, Agnieszka Golias, who added that of the 18 people on board,...
French journalists arrested at Australia anti-coal protest
Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)
Construction of the Adani project near the Great Barrier Reef has been under fierce debate for almost a decade, with environmentalists warning that fossil fuels...
Coal-dependent Poland to compensate industry for carbon costs
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
Heavily dependent on polluting coal, Poland's power stations have faced rising costs to purchase pollution rights under the EU's emissions trading scheme, costs...
Indian tycoon Adani rejects Australian mine criticism
Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)
Conservationists have condemned the Adani plan, saying it will contribute to global warming, threaten local vulnerable species, and impact the already-damaged G...
Three miners dead after tremor in Poland
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
"We received the sad news that a third miner is also dead. Rescuers are currently working on bringing the bodies to the surface," PGG spokesman Tomasz Glogowski...
Coal dust and smog plague lives on S.Africa's Highveld
Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)
"My eyes are burning. Sometimes I can't breathe," she coughs. "The doc said there is nothing we can do," says her mother Nono Ledwaba. "We need to take her out ...
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