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end of coal in asia as investors back renewables
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M***@kymhorsell.com
2019-03-18 04:30:20 UTC
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Energy analysts forecast 'the end of coal' in Asia as Japanese investors
back renewables
The Guardian, 18 Mar 2019 0:28Z
Major Japanese investors, including those most indebted to coal, are seeking
to back large-scale renewables projects across Asia, marking a "monumental" shift ...


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JTEM is Remarkably Flexible
2019-03-18 04:48:37 UTC
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China has never once honored an agreement, certainly not anything
governing coal or even CFCs, and they are never going to.







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Kym Horsell
2019-03-18 04:50:43 UTC
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Post by JTEM is Remarkably Flexible
China has never once honored an agreement, certainly not anything
governing coal or even CFCs, and they are never going to.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=1907
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Liars use short sentences, the past tense and negative statements
Bella DePaula, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia,
has found, in a study of 3,000 people, that the following clues are
the most useful indicators of whether somebody is lying:
# Lack of specific detail - not volunteering names of people and places
# Short answers
# Using the past tense
# Using negative statements ("not a crook" rather than "honest")
Unum
2019-03-18 21:14:12 UTC
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Post by M***@kymhorsell.com
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/18/energy-analysts-forecast-the-end-of-coal-in-asia-as-japanese-investors-back-renewables>
Energy analysts forecast 'the end of coal' in Asia as Japanese investors
back renewables
The Guardian, 18 Mar 2019 0:28Z
Major Japanese investors, including those most indebted to coal, are seeking
to back large-scale renewables projects across Asia, marking a "monumental" shift ...
“The vast majority of the Asian coal-fired power fleet expansion is
underwritten by government subsidies, capital subsidies,” Buckley said.

“Once you remove that capital subsidy, private enterprise is not going to put
their own capital at risk on $4bn and $5bn capital projects in a foreign
market. Projects that have been endorsed, announced, in train for five years
all of a sudden become total stranded asset proposals”.

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