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Loophole of the EIA: How we can stop the upsurge of small-scale coal plants? Who will follow Osaka Gas’ lead?
At the end of 2015, the Ministry of Environment released their summary report on the environmental issues surr…
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“The Coal Gap” Report The Emission Gap between the “2°C climate target” and emissions from existing coal-fired power plants – Emission by 3.5 billion CO2/t can be avoided if all construction plans cancelled
The independent global research group Climate Action Tracker released the report “The Coal Gap” at the Paris c…
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Why construction plans for coal plants come back from the dead?
Some coal power construction plans which had been postponed for a long time are brought back due to the recent…
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Accelerating International “Divestment”
In recent years, there have been a handful of successful divestment campaigns and a number of major banks and …
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Big step towards decarbonization: The OECD agreement to limit the export of coal technology and the Paris Agreement
In late 2015, two important agreements were made which could have a huge impact on the future of coal-related …
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New Launch of “Japan Coal Plant Tracker”
＜Press Release＞ New Launch of “Japan Coal Plant Tracker” https://sekitan.jp/plant-map November 24th, 2015 Kik…
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Public in the dark about soon-to-be-operated small-scale coal-fired power plant in Sendai
Already one year has passed since an article in the Nikkei Newspaper (September 26th, 2014) talked about a pla…
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Japan stands alone among G7 nations in move beyond coal –Japanese position clear in E3G report
E3G, a British NGO promoting a low-carbon economy, released a report that ranks G7 countries’ policy on coal i…
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【Update】48 coal-fired power plants with combined capacity of 23,496MW are under planning in Japan. (No additional info. in this time)
We have checked our list of domestic coal-fired power plants that are slated to be built, under the bidding pr…
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China commits to stricter controls for investments in overseas coal exports
On September 25th 2015, a bilateral meeting between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping…
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Paris Pledge Campaign – Call upon banks to publicly pledge to phase out finance for coal
In Europe and the US, there is a trend towards stricter regulations for coal-fired power plants, which are an …
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France Ends Export of Coal Technologies
France Ends Export of Coal Technologies On September 10th, 2015, the French government announced a new policy …
