West worries about Russia turning to coal

European efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions could be undermined by Russian plans to dramatically increase energy production from coal, Western experts said in Brussels Monday (9 March).To be able to honour its gas export contracts, Russia has to turn to coal, said Kevin Rosner, senior fellow at the US Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.Rosner presented his research, entitled 'Russian coal: Europe's new energy challenge' and sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United ...

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