Announcement

With the recent release of the NewGenCoal website (see below) the former COAL21 site and content has now been archived. This page will however be retained as a summary information page, a re-direct page for the NewGenCoal site, and a page for the posting of future COAL21 announcements.

Some background on the COAL21 Program, the COAL21 Fund and the new NewGenCoal website follows:

COAL21 Program

In March 2003 the Australian Coal Association (ACA) issued invitiations to representatives from the coal and electricity industries, unions, federal and state governments and the research community to participate in a process aimed at first identifying and then realising the potential for reducing or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from coal-based electricity generation in Australia. Agreement to participate by some 40 organisations led to the creation of the COAL21 partnership or program.

The program's development work culminated with the release in March 2004 of the COAL21 Action Plan - providing the blueprint for accelerating the demonstration and deployment of technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-based electricity generation. See: COAL21 Action Plan - Summary.

COAL21 Fund

In 2006 the ACA announced the establishment of the COAL21 Fund as part of a world-first, whole-of-industry, funding approach to support greenhouse gas abatement. The COAL21 Fund is raising more than $1 billion over 10 years from a voluntary levy on black coal production to support the pre-commercial demonstration of low emissions technologies in the power generation sector (where over 95 per cent of emissions from coal occur) and supporting R&D. To date more than $500 million has been commited by the coal industry. For details see: COAL21 Handout . See also: COAL21 Fund Participating Companies

NewGenCoal

In November 2008 the ACA was pleased to announce the release of a new and exciting website - NewGenCoal This site is designed to explain the issues related to climate change that we face as an industry, a nation and globally, and the solutions  we are working towards in Australia and worldwide. A media-rich site with an abundance of videos and expert opinion, the NewGenCoal site identifies the range of technological solutions that are now being demonstrated as well as the projects being funded by the black coal industry through its COAL21 Fund. The NewGenCoal site was selected as an Official Honoree for the 2009 Webby Awards.