The proliferation of unabated coal plants threatens to negate any advances on fighting climate change
, thanks to Indian leadership at the recent Group of 20 summit. But the proliferation of unabated coal — coal used to produce energy without steps to eliminate emissions — threatens to negate any such advances.
Tripling renewables without also halting the building of new, dirty coal plants would be like training for a marathon while smoking five packs of cigarettes a day. Even if not a single new coal plant were built anywhere in the future, the International Energy Agency has said that the emissions from the world’s existing coal fleet, if left unchecked, would be the death blow to the Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to the critical threshold of 1.
— almost 80 percent of it in China and other Asia Pacific nations. And current forecasts predict that these build-outs will last for a long time, releasing destructive levels of emissions. We know that all countries have better, cleaner options that won’t choke human lungs, pollute lakes and streams, belch out dirty air and wreak climate havoc. There are real, viable, economic alternatives to coal — most notably wind and solar, but also other clean-energy technologies such as geothermal and nuclear energy.In some countries, those cleaner alternatives need to be matched with the means to build them.
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