{"id":57358,"date":"2018-09-19T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57358"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:47:03","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-biggest-power-plant-developers-is-giving-up-on-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/09\/19\/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-power-plant-developers-is-giving-up-on-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world&#8217;s biggest power plant developers is giving up on coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world is slowly but surely transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy,\u00a0Japanese energy company Marubeni &#8211; one of world&#8217;s biggest power plant developers &#8211; also announced that it will not build any more coal-powered plants. Instead, the company plans to double the\u00a0sustainable energy capacity of its net power supply from 10% to 20% by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, the company plans to avoid job loss by reassigning their employees currently working on coal-related projects to their renewable energy initiatives as they develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarubeni Corporation recognizes that climate change is a major issue shared by all of humanity,\u201d said the company in a statement detailing their new initiative. \u201cIt is a problem that threatens the co-existence of the global environment and society, a problem that has an enormous effect on Marubeni\u2019s business and its shareholders, and a problem that Marubeni believes must be dealt with swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-power-plant-developers-just-gave-up-on-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-power-plant-developers-just-gave-up-on-coal\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world is slowly but surely transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy,\u00a0Japanese energy company Marubeni &#8211; one of world&#8217;s biggest power plant developers &#8211; also announced that it will not build any more coal-powered plants. Instead, the company plans to double the\u00a0sustainable energy capacity of its net power supply from 10% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}