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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Nanjala Nyabola Kenya’s plan to build a coal-burning power plant on the doorstep of an historic island has sparked some of the country’s most intense environmental organizing in years, reports journalist Nanjala Nyabola. Activists say the plan, part of Kenya’s foreign-policy pivot to China, would...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and others will continue to play large roles in the import of LNG, coal, oil, and uranium, as well as being big investors in energy facilities and fields globally. Japan needs to come to some consensus on what to do about spent nuclear fuel, nuclear fuel reprocessing, and its plutonium reserves...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled largely by coal and oil, is being replaced with one poweredby solar and wind energy. Photo: Portland General Electric Climate Change Takes Center Stage Climate change has a short but alarming history. From...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to generating heat, the ger stoves spew a hazardous type of pollution called particulate matter ( pm ) in the form of soot. Other sources, such as coal-fired power plants and vehicles, also contribute to the city’s pollution problem. When concentrations of pm in the air are elevated and the individual...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2015
... with existing technology, renewables have a limited impact on the overall energy sector, in the absence of a suitable infrastructure allowing for long-distance transmission of electricity and its massive storage. Fossil fuel and coal consumption, which represents about 80 percent of the worldwide energy...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 110–121.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the moment of Mongolia’s independence from the Soviet bloc less than a quarter century ago, vast reserves of coal (including the world’s single largest deposit of vital coking coal), oil and gas, copper, gold, uranium, and a host of other valuable minerals have been uncovered. Explorers and prospectors flock...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 35–38.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Stanley Jevons first diagnosed this dilemma in 1865’s The Coal Question , arguing that more efficient steam engines would drive down the cost to run them, thereby increasing coal consumption and eventually precipitating a crisis we would call “peak coal” today. Doing more with less is the essence...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 23–36.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of pollution resulting from the
policy in 1900. It even became the theme use of coal and oil.
for an improbably successful novel, Oil for Russia’s gas reserves are the world’s
the Lamps of China, by Alice Tisdale Hobart, largest, comprising 31 percent of known
a bestseller in the United...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 5–10.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... As coal consumption declines, clean energy technology develops, and steel and coal factories reduce their emissions, the government says the air will continue to improve. So far, hukou reform is not part of the Jing-Jin-Ji plan, and many question if the co-development project can be a success...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2011
... global steel production, and its voracious appetite for raw materials fuelled an explosion in commodity prices. By 2008, the price of iron ore soared from $20 a ton in 2003 to $160 a ton, the price of coking coal surged five-fold, while thermal coal jumped more than six-fold. By the 1960s, Japan's...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2015
... by digging up our vast reserves of fossil fuels and shipping them to the world and the politicians who back them. If the world is to respond effectively to climate change, most of Australia’s coal and gas needs to stay in the ground, unburned. Fossil fuel companies face huge losses as the global divestment...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., was the form that most of Berlin’s legalized squats eventually took. Barely two years after I moved in, gentrification was in full swing. Briefe an Felice and the coal yard had closed. The construction hullabaloo had crossed from Mitte into Prenzlauer Berg, commencing a 10-year process of refurbishment...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 82–91.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., Churchill Mining has launched a global public relations campaign alerting the financial world that Indonesia is not a trustworthy place to invest. Churchill Mining, a publicly traded London-based firm, announced in May 2008 that it had found 150 million tons of coal in Indonesian Borneo. This turned out...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 51–58.
Published: 01 June 2005
... was born in the Coal and at least influenced, by ministries. The al
Steel Community of 1952, when six coun liance of interests between governments and
tries joined in a “common market.” The utilities is often evident where vertically in
rules established for steel and coal paved tegrated...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 113–122.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Europe, especially in Poland where vast reserves of coal were just being developed, and in Yugoslavia which was marginally capitalist than Poland. This young man was busily flitting from project to project, scattering largesse almost at will—loans in hard currency desperately needed by countries...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 8–11.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Trump over Hillary Clinton by 43 percentage points. Yet 10 years earlier, the Schuykill borough of Tamaqua, in the heart of eastern Pennsylvania coal country, made environmental history. But waiting out the next four years hoping for a change in national leadership is not an option. We must push...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 13–20.
Published: 01 June 2002
... nineteenth century had little need for Madison was challenging John Adams’s
bases; the steam-driven navy after the 1850s view that the British Empire in America
needed regular coaling stations along the sea was “introduced in allusion to the Roman
routes, and coaling stations required forts...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 14–18.
Published: 01 June 2016
... centuries had some more balance given the strength of its industrial north, which encompassed highly skilled industries such as steel in Sheffield and shipbuilding in Newcastle, along with textiles in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, and coal mining throughout the north (and with other major centers...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 85–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., the Danes
and the Dutch, and billions of garments woven by the Jews, and mountainous
masses of coal and iron and copper dug from the pits by Italians and Finns and
Poles, and whole cities of skyscrapers and subways and railroads and mills and
marts wrought...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the atmosphere, and the numbers were just insane. Effectively you’re talking about taking every coal mine and every oil well and every natural gas well that has ever existed, and running it backwards full tilt for centuries to take the carbon out of the air. We can talk about tax credits or carbon market...
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