China coal output up 5.8% in Jan-Feb as new capacity …

China's coal output rose by 5.8% in the first two months of 2023 from the same period a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, as new mining capacity came online and Beijing encouraged ...

The impact of resource tax reform on China's coal industry

In 2011, a national resource tax reform on oil and gas was implemented, and China moved from a volume-based tax (8–30 RMB yuan/ton on oil and 2–15 RMB yuan/m 3 on gas) to an ad valorem tax with a tax rate of 5%–10% ( Shi et al., 2015 ). The resource tax reform on coal followed the reform of the oil and gas tax.

Impacts of coal use phase-out in China on the

Impacts of coal use phase-out in China on the atmospheric environment: (1) emissions, surface concentrations and exceedance of air quality standards - …

China's first quarter coal imports surge, defying gloomy …

China's imports of all grades of coal from the seaborne market were 97.43 million metric tons in the first quarter of 2024, up 16.9% from 83.36 million tons in the same period in 2023, according ...

Characteristics and health risk assessment of indoor and

Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) has health effects that may depend on its sources and chemical composition.In this study, characteristics of PM 2.5 chemical composition and health risk assessment from Songyuan, China, were investigated during day and night in indoor and outdoor from February 4 to 19, 2021. Relative high …

China and its Massive Coal Consumption – Fact Check

China has proven coal reserves of 149,818 million tons, comparable to 34.7 times its annual consumption and accounting for around 13% of the world's total. China's …

How China Became the World's Leader on Renewable Energy

In 2021, in the Paris Agreement commitments that China submitted to the U.N., Beijing pledged to "strictly limit" coal growth, strictly control new coal power, …

How geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty impact coal …

This study is an earlier attempt to investigate the impact of geopolitical risk, economic policy uncertainty, and economic growth on coal, natural gas, and oil rents for China during 1990-2021. In doing so, we use different preliminary test including Jarque-Bera and unit root test for checking the reliability of the dataset.

Penetration of clean coal technology and its impact on China…

1. Introduction. Coal power holds a dominant position in China's power generation mix, which is associated with 90% of China's domestic SO 2 emissions, 70% of the dust emissions, 67% of NO x emissions, and 70% of CO 2 emissions. As the world's largest coal consumer, China's power industry is now confronted with dual challenges of …

Coal

Coal fires in China, many ignited by explosions used in the extraction process, may account for 1% of the world's carbon emissions. ... Coal mining can impact local water supplies in several ways. Streams may be blocked, increasing the chances for flooding. Toxins often leach into groundwater, streams, and aquifers.

Environmental Consequences of Rising Energy Use in China

Gentrification's impact on school demographics: A study of 3 California cities . ... China is the world's largest coal producer accounting for 28% of world coal production and 26% of world ...

Location-specific co-benefits of carbon emissions reduction from coal

Zhou et al. estimated China-specific coefficients for IF as the dependent variable, and distance from coal-fired power plants, population density, and climate as independent variables, using 29 ...

Exploring phase-out path of China's coal power plants with …

1. Introduction. China's electricity system is responsible for approximately half of the nation's carbon emissions, making up roughly 14% of the total global carbon emissions (He et al., 2020).China is actively promoting the low-carbon transformation of its electricity system, which involves increasing the proportion of non-fossil energy and …

Coal utilization in China: environmental impacts and …

Coal is one of the major energy resources in China, accounting for approximately 70 % of primary energy consumption. Many environmental problems and human health risks arise during coal exploitation, utilization, and waste disposal, especially in the remote mountainous areas of western China (e.g., eastern Yunnan, western Guizhou and …

Environmental externality of coal use in China: Welfare …

Abstract. This study employs a multi-regional input–output model at the provincial level to evaluate the environmental costs of coal burning in China in 2007, in terms of its damages from climate change externality. According to the results, the contributions of central-west provinces to the national economy are significantly …

Climate impact of coal-to-clean-energy shift policies in rural …

The climate impact during the policy transition is still unclear. Thus, this paper developed a lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions framework for coal-to-clean-energy policies in rural northern China. The GHG emissions for heating and cooking, the two most energy intensive activities, were calculated.

The Carbon Brief Profile: China

As part of a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at China, which leads the world in terms of greenhouse gas …

China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal …

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