Coal has a big role to play in delivering energy access
Yesterday I wrote about the ambition that is needed to address the energy access challenge. Clearly the amount of energy needed to lift billions out of poverty is huge. The focus of this year’s Vienna...
View ArticleEurope struggles to pay its energy bill
WCA’s Policy Manager, Aleks Tomczak, looks at the growing issue of energy poverty within Europe and asks how Europe can meet its environmental goals while still delivering affordable energy. Between 50...
View ArticleTime for a climate rethink?
The IEA recently published ‘Resources to Reserves’, a new report which assesses the availability of fossil fuels globally and looks at the technologies needed to find, produce and bring oil, gas and...
View Article“Take leadership on energy access with efficient coal”– WCA tells...
LONDON – Responding to the release of the International Energy Agency’s Special Report “Re-drawing the Energy-Climate Map” the World Coal Association (WCA) today called for leadership from the IEA and...
View ArticleAustralia’s Climate Commission report: ideology over solutions
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) has today criticised a new report from Australia’s Climate Commission as ideologically driven, one-sided and inherently unscientific. The report “The Critical...
View ArticleWhat can be achieved by improving coal power plant efficiency?
Too often the potential offered by efficiency improvements can be over-looked or even dismissed. We should ‘leave coal in the ground’ has been a frequent comment this week. Isn’t the climate change...
View ArticleIntroducing the World Coal Association Leadership & Excellence Awards
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) today announced the launch of its inaugural Leadership & Excellence Awards programme. This year’s awards, the first of an annual series, will be presented...
View ArticlePoland’s Deputy Prime Minister wants EU’s 3 x 20 to become 5 x 20
I met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Janusz Piechocinski, earlier this week, and he told me that he wants to see the “3 x 20” EU energy and climate targets become “5 x 20”. The current...
View ArticleWCA welcomes IEA carbon capture & storage roadmap – CCS critical part of...
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) has welcomed today’s launch of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage, supporting the report’s findings that...
View ArticleBring affordability & security back into the 2030 energy equation
When Europe debated its 2020 climate and energy goals, Europe was still far-away from today’s reality of contracting economic activity, growing unemployment and sovereign defaults within the Eurozone....
View ArticleHow is increased funding for gas an ‘end to fossil fuel subsidies’?
Many have linked the recent decisions by the World Bank and European Investment Bank to limit funding of coal projects as a step towards ending fossil fuel subsidies. Connie Hedegaard, the EU...
View ArticlePoland’s Deputy Prime Minister to open International Coal & Climate Summit –...
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) is delighted to announce that Janusz Piechociński, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, has agreed to open the International Coal and...
View ArticleWCA Interviews Ming Sung from the Clean Air Task Force
Ming Sung is the Chief Representative for the Asia-Pacific region for the environmental NGO, Clean Air Task Force. Clean Air Task Force works to help safeguard against the worst impacts of climate...
View ArticleWCA calls for greater action in fight against energy poverty
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) has called for greater action to support developing countries in their fight against energy poverty. The WCA was responding to a joint statement by the...
View ArticleWCA launches the Warsaw Communiqué – Call to Action
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) today announced the launch of the Warsaw Communiqué, a call to action to support the use and deployment of more efficient coal technologies to tackle climate...
View ArticleSign up to The Warsaw Communiqué
Last month, the World Coal Association announced the launch of the Warsaw Communiqué, a three-step call to action to support the use and deployment of more efficient coal technologies to tackle climate...
View ArticleUNFCCC Executive Secretary to speak at International Coal & Climate Summit –...
LONDON – Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will be delivering a keynote speech at the International Coal & Climate...
View ArticleTrillion-tonne budget means carbon capture is not optional
Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader of ECI Climate Research Programme at University of Oxford discusses the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fifth assessment...
View ArticleNew EPA regulations will do nothing to combat climate change
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon emissions from new fossil fuel electric generating utilities in the USA. Under the proposal,...
View ArticleWCA supports progress towards a climate agreement
The World Coal Association (WCA) supports the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference that is taking place in Warsaw, Poland from 11 to 22 November 2013. The WCA is...
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