05 March 2021
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Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025. Meanwhile Poland says its first nuclear power unit will be built in Gdansk and the second one probably at the site of its Belchatów coal plant.
Poland might build a nuclear unit at the Belchatów coal plant site (Image: Wikipedia)
Hungarian President János Áder announced the country’s original plan to exit coal by 2030 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in September 2019. He said Hungary would simultaneously increase its solar power capacity ten times and expand the capacity of its nuclear power plants. These efforts would mean that 90% of Hungary’s electricity production will be carbon-free within a decade, he said.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/500990.html (Natural News) The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the world to end its “deadly addiction” to fossil fuels such as coal. But Guterres either does not know or has failed to take into account the fact that metallurgical coal is an essential component in the processes of refining silicon and iron ore for the construction of solar panels and wind turbines.
Guterres said phasing out the use of coal in the energy sector is the single most important step humanity can take to deal with the supposed climate crisis. The secretary-general put out this call in the opening of a virtual summit of the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a group of governments and businesses that are committed to phasing out the use of coal. (Related: No justification for linking climate change to global conflict, Russia tells UN Security Council.)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has, once again, exhorted world leaders to end our deadly addiction to coal. Speaking at a Powering Past Coal Alliance event, the secretary-general urged all nations to:
Cancel all coal projects in the pipeline. The top Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations, in particular, are encouraged to take the lead on this priority;
End international financing of coal and provide greater support to developing nations to help them transition to zero-carbon energy sources; and
Develop a plan to start working on the just transition.
Guterres further stated that “phasing out coal from the electricity sector is the single most important step to get in line with the 1.5-degree goal.”
05 March 2021
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Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025. Meanwhile Poland says its first nuclear power unit will be built in Gdansk and the second one probably at the site of its Belchatów coal plant.
Poland might build a nuclear unit at the Belchatów coal plant site (Image: Wikipedia)
Hungarian President János Áder announced the country’s original plan to exit coal by 2030 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in September 2019. He said Hungary would simultaneously increase its solar power capacity ten times and expand the capacity of its nuclear power plants. These efforts would mean that 90% of Hungary’s electricity production will be carbon-free within a decade, he said.