Climate change project financing and coal-based market options
- Alternative Energy Development, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (United States)
Climate change mitigation activities underway in the industrialized and developing countries have created an opportunity for clean coal-bed methane recovery project to attract additional green financing of project development. Both clean coal and coal-bed methane recovery projects reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), notably carbon dioxide through more efficient energy use and methane capture, respectively, thereby lowering anthropogenic sources of climate change. Mitigation programs sponsored by industrialized countries and international donor organizations have created a pool of green funding close to $0.5 billion that can be used to leverage private public sector mitigation efforts. With the implementation of clean coal and coal-bed methane recovery projects being important transitionary mitigation options. This paper will outline the rationale and market for the use of lower GHG emitting coal-based technologies, the conditions and criteria under which developers can have access to various sources of climate change mitigation funds, and examples of viable clean coal and coal-bed methane recovery projects planned or underway. Projects underway globally to take advantage of these funds and new opportunities for private sector involvement will also be discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 504714
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960954-; TRN: IM9733%%129
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. annual international Pittsburgh coal conference, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 3-7 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Thirteenth annual international Pittsburgh coal conference: Proceedings. Volume 1; Chiang, S.H. [ed.]; PB: 786 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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