06: 4 Years Of Coal Phase-Out Policies In Europe w/ Dave Jones from Sandbag

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English - January 17, 2020 10:26 - 51 minutes - 42.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Dave Jones is an electricity analyst leading the coal phase-out work for Sandbag - a London & Brussels-based non-profit climate change think tank.

Dave spent 13 years working at E.ON analysing electricity & carbon markets. He is currently focused on an NGO campaign to help phase out coal in Europe.

He recently published a report analysing the past 4 years of coal policy in the EU, what has been done well & what hasn't worked as well based on whether the policies were: Just, Ambitious, Legislated, Clean, Direct, Reliable, Economic, Healthy & Smart.

I was extremely curious to chat with him, particularly because there are fascinating differences between the 2 leading economies in Europe - Germany & the UK. The former is famously ending Nuclear and has to compensate by (controversially) building new coal plants, while the latter has managed to nearly phase out coal entirely and is amongst the countries leading the charge.

DAVE JONES & SANDBAG RELEVANT LINKS

Dave's Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/CoalFreeDave

Sandbag Website - https://sandbag.org.uk/

TIMECODES

00:51 Dave’s Background & his Experience in the Energy Business Sector

05:37 Why It's Important to phase out coal in order to reduce warming By 2100

08:15 Are coal plants still being built worldwide?

13:34 Staying in line with the Paris agreement

16:32 Europe & Coal

21:24 Coal plants being replaced by gas plants in the US

23:46 When is Germany going to phase out coal?

29:00 About the European Carbon Market