David Victor Notes on the Unrelenting Growth in Coal Use
China's mega mine collaboration
07/15/2011
Andrew Revkin,
The New York Times
A newly announced partnership between the world’s biggest private coal mining company and coal-burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels. All of its efforts on renewable energy come atop ongoing expansion of its use of coal.
In a news release issued today, the coal company, Peabody Energy, gushingly describes the company’s partnership with the government of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Communist Party on a plan to develop a surface coal mine that will produced 50 million tons of coal a year “over multiple decades.” The news is summarized well by James Areddy and Simon Hall in The Wall Street Journal.
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
