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their current policies scenarios. We contrast their results with coal sector modelling based on bottom-up data and recent …Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons … are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power …
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Existing long-term energy and climate scenarios are typically a rather simple extrapolation of past trends. Both … technological progress. These holistic scenarios are designed to overcome previous barriers by an innovative bridging between both …
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This paper builds a complex network of weighted and directed coal trade based on the international coal trade data in … distribution and other characteristics of international coal trade, and determines the main trade core countries and trade hub … countries. The results show that the scale of international coal trade has grown steadily, but the transformation of trade …
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paper considers their role in reducing energy poverty and discusses scenarios for the future of the global markets for oil …
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Domestic laws are the ideal legal instrument to regulate the mining sector’s contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Even so, as a stop-gap-measure, governments may consider updating model mining development agreements (MMDAs) or negotiating climate­-related contractual...
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This paper and associated presentation explores the economic phenomenon of the so called ‘resource curse’. We begin by defining the phrase and outlining the main individual ‘curses’ and their causes to give the reader a broad understanding of what is meant by the phrase. This is followed...
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Urban land governance is one of the central challenges not just for urban but also more broadly for global development in times of rapid urbanisation. This paper advances a fresh perspective to look at urban land by exploring to what extent it could be characterised as a resource curse problem....
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fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th century, and continuing in the rest of the world with coal and …
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If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...
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Rare earth elements (REEs) have gained increasing attention recently for several key reasons: 1) they are vital to many strategic industries, 2) they are relatively scarce, 3) they frequently exhibit high price fluctuations, 4) China holds a quasi-monopoly on their mining, and 5) China's REE...
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