The phasing out of coal is happening too slowly, warns study

Organization of research in this article. Plain text—inputs, italic—assumptions used in building coal phase-out trajectories, bold—results. Dashed lines—use of contextual information for analysis and benchmarking. Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acadf6

The use of coal power is not decreasing fast enough. The Paris Agreement’s target of a maximum of 2 degrees of warming appear to be missed, and the world is moving towards a temperature increase of…

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