spread to the rest of the world. Settings like the Ottoman Empire were early arenas for testing and adopting coal and …Introduction : energy and empire -- Water -- Animals -- Humans -- Environment -- Risk -- Fossil. … charting how the world was carbonized. It also jettisons some misleading yet prevalent myths and clears impediments to this …

role in the global energy sector. We develop a complementarity model of the international market for steam coal. We want to …With its resource availability and the prospect of climate friendly technology, coal continues to play an important … analyze the level of competition in this market which is strategic for the importers' security of energy supply. In a spatial …

Coal continues to be an important fuel in many countries' energy mix and, despite the climate change concerns, it is … evolution of the international market for steam coal, the coal type used for electricity generation. The main focus is on future … trade ows and investments in production and transport infrastructure until 2030. COALMOD-World is an equilibrium model …

decrease in electricity generation by coal could contribute to reducing CO2 emissions. We study potential economic consequences … of a coal phase-out in Germany, using a multi-region dynamic general equilibrium model. Four regional phase-out scenarios … unemployment rates varies be-tween 0.18 [0.13; 0.22] and 1.07 [1.00; 1.13] percentage points in the lignite regions. A faster coal …

decrease in electricity generation by coal could contribute to reducing CO2 emissions. Using a multi-region dynamic general … equilibrium model, this paper studies potential economic consequences of a coal phase-out in Germany. Different regional phase …-out scenarios are simulated with varying timing structures. We find that a politically induced coal phase-out would lead to an …

sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet. The U.S. Energy Information Administration as well as most models … of North American energy markets depict continuously high shares of coal-fired power generation over the next decades in …Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons …