香港地球之友綠色金融顧問 / Green Finance Advisor of Friends of the Earth (HK)
雖然越來越多的銀行和金融機構正試圖削減與煤炭行業的關係，但業界正試圖為清潔煤炭技術進行綠色融資。潔淨煤技術是一系列旨在減少燃煤燃燒產生的碳排放和其他污染物的技術。然而，考慮到煤炭開採的處理，煤炭運輸的物流和燃煤發電的「清潔」過程，我們認為潔淨煤技術更像是一個神話而非解決方案。
首先，煤炭必須從地下開採。考慮到煤炭對環境的破壞，這很難成為一項綠色工作，更不用說將煤運到發電廠的問題了。目前主要問題是可用的大多數商業化清潔煤技術在減碳和其他污染物方面效率不高。事實證明，一些現有的潔淨煤項目排放污染物是增加而非減少。簡而言之，潔淨煤技術通常不被視為發電的可行綠色解決方案。使用綠色資本來為潔淨煤炭技術提供資金是不應被鼓勵的。
關於清潔煤的一些資訊 （來源: endcoal.org）（只有英文版）
While more banks and financial institutions are trying to cut their ties to the coal industry, the industry’s participants are trying to get green financing for clean coal technologies. Clean coal technologies are a collection of technologies targeting to cut down the carbon emissions and other pollutants generated in burning coal for power generation. However, considering the processing of coal mining, the logistics in transporting coal and the “cleaning” process in coal-fired power generation, we see clean coal technology is more like a myth than a solution.
First of all, coal has to be mined out of the ground. This can hardly be a green exercise considering the damage to the environment, not to mention the issues in transporting coal to power plants. The major problem indeed is that most of the commercialized clean-coal technologies available at present are not efficient in reducing carbon and other pollutants. Some existing clean coal projects are in fact proved to be emitting more but not less pollutants. In a nutshell, clean coal technologies are generally not perceived as a viable green solution for power generation. Using green capital to finance clean coal technologies is not encouraged.
