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 ratingsEarth Sciences Science Technology clean energy carbon nuclear carbon offsets carbon removal green energy climate change greenhouse gases co2 emissions renewables Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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
38:36 Solutions for the Asian Coal Industry
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
IPCC Report - https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
IEA Model - https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-model
Report: 4 Years of Coal Phase-out policies in the EU - https://sandbag.org.uk/project/solving-the-coal-puzzle/