The World Coal Association (WCA) is an international
non-profit
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, non-governmental association based in
London
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,
United Kingdom
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. It was created to represent the global
coal industry
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when de ...
. The association was formerly called the World Coal Institute (WCI) but changed its name in November 2010. The WCA undertakes
lobbying
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, organises workshops, and provides coal information to decision makers in international
energy
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and
environmental policy
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and research discussions, as well as supplying information to the general public and educational organisations on the benefits and issues surrounding the use of coal. It also promotes
clean coal technologies.
It has participated in a number of
United Nations
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and
International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the entire global energy sector, with a recent focus on curbing carb ...
(IEA) workshops, boards, and forums, including the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the ...
, the IEA Working Party on Fossil Fuels, and the IEA Coal Industry Advisory Board. It is also part of the
Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum.
It is co-author of a report on the future of coal in
ASEAN
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nations.
In 2019, the WCA appoints a new CEO, Michelle Manook who previously worked in mining services firm
Orica
Orica Limited () is an Australian-based multinational corporation that is one of the world's largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and construction markets, a supplier of sodium ...
.
See also
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Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia. Usually th ...
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Clean coal
Coal pollution mitigation, sometimes called clean coal, is a series of systems and technologies that seek to mitigate the health and environmental impact of coal; in particular air pollution from coal-fired power stations, and from coal burnt ...
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Coal lobby
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
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Coal-mining region
Coal mining regions are significant Natural resource#Extraction, resource extraction industries in many parts of the world. They provide a large amount of the fossil fuel energy in the world economy.
The China, People's Republic of China is the la ...
References
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