This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY If you are wondering why I am spending so much time on this topic, its because COP 26 in Glasgow is getting very close and if ever there was a time when world leaders could change our trajectory, it's now. Much of the following comes from Climate Change think tank E3G's report 'No New Coal.' To reiterate why this is a key theme let me quote from the introduction. "The consumption of thermal coal for power generation accounts for around a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, making the continued operation of the existing global fleet of coal power plants the biggest single risk to keeping below the 1.5c threshold set out in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Adding new coal power plants makes no sense: when in a hole the first task is to stop digging." By June 2021, 44 countries had committed to no new coal power plants, and had thereby avoided adding another 56% to the global fleet or 1,047 GW ...
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