CHINA COAL MINE METHANE EXTRACTION PROJECTS WORLD BANK
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is not always the case that an initiative tackling an mining environmental problem also directly improves the health and safety of miners, but this is true for a new World Bank project to remove methane from Chinese coal mines.
The bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China's finance ministry for designing and developing a Clean Development Fund (CDF), where sales of credits for emission reductions, generated by projects such as coal mine methane reduction, will be used to support sustainable development projects, including the ...
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