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US Signs New Climate Pact To Shut Down All Coal Plants
Epoch Times ^ | 12/03/2023 | Tom Ozimek

Posted on 12/03/2023 8:04:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind

John Kerry, special presidential envoy on climate matters, announced Saturday that the United States has "proudly" committed to not to build any new coal plants and to get rid of existing ones entirely.

"To meet our goal of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, we need to phase out unabated coal," Mr. Kerry said in a Dec. 2 statement, in which he announced that the United States had officially joined a coalition of 56 other countries who all plan to ditch coal in the name of climate change.

“We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities,” Mr. Kerry said in his statement.

“The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants.”

While no specific date was given for when the Biden administration plans to nix America's existing coal plants, other regulatory actions by the administration zero in on 2035 as the year when coal ends.

Just under 20 percent of U.S. electricity was powered by coal as of October 2023, according to the Department of Energy (DOE).

Anti-Coal Alliance

The anti-coal pact that Mr. Kerry said Washington had just joined is called the Power Past Coal Alliance, which was started six years ago and had 50 members until Saturday, when the United States, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Kosovo, and Norway joined bringing the total to 56.

Citing IEA’s Net Zero Roadmap, the Power Past Coal Alliance said in a Dec. 2 statement that, in order to "keep the 1.5°C goal within reach," advanced economies like the United States need to immediately end the construction of new coal power plants and phase out existing plants by 2030, and by 2040 in the rest of the world.

The 1.5°C threshold, first established in the Paris Agreement in 2015, aims to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100.

In 2022, coal-fired plants generated 36 percent of global electricity, outstripping all other sources. Over half of this output was in China, which is building new coal plants at a fast pace, undeterred by various climate pledges and goals that the country's leadership has paid lip service to.

The next three largest contributors to global coal-fired electricity are India, the United States, and Japan, which jointly account for around 25 percent of the total.

Coal Use In China, Elsewhere

China saw coal power projects jump in 2022 despite the country's pledge to cut down coal consumption by the end of the decade.

In 2022, coal power construction starts, new project announcements, and plant permissions “accelerated dramatically” in China, according to a February report (pdf) by Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), which noted that roughly two new coal power plants were being permitted per week in China.

“50 GW of coal power capacity started construction in China in 2022, a more than 50 percent increase from 2021. Many of these projects had their permits fast-tracked and moved to construction in a matter of months,” the report said.

“A total of 106 GW of new coal power projects were permitted, the equivalent of two large coal power plants per week," the report continued.

"The amount of capacity permitted more than quadrupled from 23 GW in 2021.”

The second-largest consumer of coal, India, has also seen its coal consumption rise. According to the “Coal 2022” report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal demand in India rose by 14 percent in 2021.

Meanwhile, coal demand in the United States saw a growth of 15 percent in 2021, per the IEA report.

Meanwhile, a recent report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found that roughly a million coal jobs could be lost by 2050 as mines retire—even without any climate policies being implemented.

The vast majority of job losses would be in Asia, with China and India taking the brunt.

As for the United States, the GEM report estimates more than 15,000 jobs in the coal sector will be lost per decade in the 2030s and 40s, and less than 15,000 jobs to be lost in the 2050s.

For the current decade, the report estimates a U.S. coal job loss of below 15,000.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; civilization; climatechange; climatehoax; coal; electricity; energy; fakescience; globalwarming; hanoijohn; illegal; johnkerry; pact; tehranjohn; traitor
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To: SeekAndFind

so many.................so little rope


41 posted on 12/04/2023 1:52:36 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: TLI
“After that, what to do with 50 million illegal aliens?”

Even if it takes 50 years, deport every last one of them back to heir country of origin, along with any children they had while here illegally.

DEPORT

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

42 posted on 12/04/2023 2:55:50 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I will burn some tires today.
Might make me feel better.


43 posted on 12/04/2023 2:58:44 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Until and unless it is ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, it is just a piece of paper, completely without legal standing. Merely John Kerry’s fever dream. Kerry is so anxious to be something other than a very successful gigolo.


44 posted on 12/04/2023 3:31:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The good news is that Kerry would be 92 and should be 6’ under by 2035.


45 posted on 12/04/2023 3:38:26 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

When will these criminal traitors be held accountable?


46 posted on 12/04/2023 3:54:32 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: SeekAndFind

Has Congress voted on this? If not, this is a threat to the Republic.


47 posted on 12/04/2023 4:25:37 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: SeekAndFind

People in cold and hot places - and EV owners - to be hit hardest...


48 posted on 12/04/2023 4:50:03 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: The Louiswu

I wonder who China is paying to make this decision?
CARBON REDUCTION SHOULD START WITH THE ELITE AND THEIR PRIVATE PLANES, YACTS, MANSIONS ETC. Rather than placing the burden on what’s left of the middle class and the poor.


49 posted on 12/04/2023 5:43:39 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: SeekAndFind

What about metallurgical coal...?


50 posted on 12/04/2023 5:45:00 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

There only real question to this is...what are you going to replace them with John? ...and DON’T SAY ‘wind and solar’. They don’t have the energy density to compete and this is also concurrent with forcing everyone to EV’s which will require a large increase in electricity capacity.

Answer the question John. If you can’t, you’re just condemning us back to caves. No such policies should be agreed upon unless a solution is also defined.


51 posted on 12/04/2023 5:48:04 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SeekAndFind

Worthless until it’s voted on in the Senate. Let’s see what they have to say.


52 posted on 12/04/2023 5:49:42 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I AM A ZIONIST HOODLUM!)
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To: SeekAndFind

All these cancellations of coal plants will cause brown and black outs to begin just like Africa. Get your portable solar plants dusted off because next spring you’re going to need them.


53 posted on 12/04/2023 5:53:49 AM PST by chopperk
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s get rid of Kerry and KEEP our coal plants! SERIOUSLY.


54 posted on 12/04/2023 6:23:40 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: from occupied ga

You are correct. We need to reelect Trump.


56 posted on 12/04/2023 6:25:59 AM PST by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: SeekAndFind

Logan Act bump.


57 posted on 12/04/2023 6:28:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The USA is already seeing this from the Obama administration. Since then the company I worked for has closed and tore down several coal and lignite fired plants. Some plants is still in operation as they are so profitable they still use low sulfur Wyoming coal, yet they have had to be rebuilt to remove the smidgen of sulfur in them.

Other coal plants have been destroyed. The ones at Page AZ are gone, the ones at Farmington NM are in the process of being destroyed as is the natural gas industry. Needless to say the economic downturn has hit these towns real hard! Great coal field areas where plants were planned for fifty years ago have suddenly been declared within National Monument areas and cannot be used.

And to think, 45 years ago Coal was considered a blessing and Nuclear Power was the then booger man to be frightened of.


58 posted on 12/04/2023 7:02:57 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Right Brother

45% …
You’re absolutely right. Democrat voters are unwilling to ever change their votes no matter how awful the consequences of their poor choices. There was a quote by the late Terry Goodkind something to the effect that “People are stupid. They’ll believe any lie as long as they want it to be true or they’re afraid it’s true.” But I don’t think that’s adequate to explain the phenomenon. When their noses are rubbed in it - massive inflation, the utter failure of gun control to do what it promises etc.for example - they double down and become ever more fanatical about their insane beliefs.


59 posted on 12/04/2023 7:26:04 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The EPA will just constantly tighten the emissions standards until no coal plant can meet them. All executive branch stuff no need for Kongress to do anything.


60 posted on 12/04/2023 7:28:52 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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