Create, Grow, Sustain:
Celebrating Success
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
2014 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
For more than 130 years, Peabody Energy has fueled the world with energy essential to sustain
life and grow economies. As the world’s largest private-sector coal company, we provide clean,
affordable and abundant energy.
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We developed our Advanced
Energy for Life campaign
aimed at building awareness
and support to eliminate
energy poverty, increase
access to low-cost electricity
At Peabody, we believe energy poverty is the number one human and environmental crisis the
world faces today. Energy is essential — like food and water. Yet, as many as 3.5 billion people —
half the world’s population — still lack adequate access to modern power. And another 2 billion
will require energy as our population grows in the next 20 years.
Energy is a global issue that requires global solutions. The world continues to turn to coal to
solve its largest energy and economic challenges, but we need far more action to expand access
to low-cost electricity to help families, power economies and pull billions out of energy poverty.
That’s why we developed our Advanced Energy for Life campaign, aimed at building awareness
and support to eliminate energy poverty, increase access to low-cost electricity and improve
emissions through advanced clean coal technologies. Our campaign recognizes a simple truth:
Coal provides the large-scale, low-cost clean electricity that is essential to modern living.
In any global action plan to alleviate energy poverty and increase access to low-cost electricity,
all energy forms are necessary. Our plan outlines principled energy solutions in five key steps:
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Eliminate energy poverty by ensuring that half of all new generation is coal-fueled.
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Replace older coal plants with today’s advanced technology supercritical plants.
through advanced clean coal
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Develop at least 100 carbon capture, use and storage projects.
technologies. Our campaign
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Deploy coal conversion technologies that use coal to produce liquid fuels and synthetic gas.
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Commercialize next-generation technologies to achieve near-zero emissions.
and improve emissions
recognizes a simple truth:
Coal provides the large-scale,
low-cost clean electricity that
is essential to modern living.
Through advanced coal technologies, coal powers more energy, more cleanly every day. Since
1970, the amount of U.S. coal used for electricity generation has nearly tripled, while key power
plant emissions have decreased nearly 90 percent. Around the globe, Peabody is advancing
projects and partnerships to commercialize clean coal solutions. We are the only non-Chinese
partner in GreenGen, China’s signature low-carbon coal plant; contributors to Australia’s COAL21
Fund; supporters of FutureGen in the United States; and a founding partner in the Prairie State
Energy Campus, an advanced supercritical coal plant.
We believe clean, modern energy is the solution for better, longer and healthier lives. Join us and be
part of the solution in your community and around the world at www.advancedenergyforlife.com.
Gregory H. Boyce
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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