Most of the projects for new coal-fired power plants were "scrapped" by the Paris Agreement

The concrete reduction of the use of coal as an energy source makes the fight against global warming more concrete and possible

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The concrete reduction of the use of coal as an energy source makes it more concrete and possible to achieve the commitments made on the occasion of the Paris Accords

With the IPCC report, scientists from around the world have raised the alarm: it is necessary to reduce the use of coal as an energy source by 2050 to keep the global temperature increase within 1,5 ° C (as required by the Paris Climate Agreements) and avert the risk of further damage caused by the climate crisis. The road ahead is still very long and treacherous, above all due to the lack of coordination in the initiatives of the individual states, each of which is still too tied to national interests to also take into account the good of the planet.

However, a new report released by E3G gives hope, demonstrating how this goal could be one step away from achieving it: the number of potential coal-fired power plants projects is in fact dropped by 76% after the signing of the Paris Accords (2015). The structural transformation of the electricity sector is a process in continuous acceleration towards more sustainable solutions and the use of renewable sources, fortunately, also thanks to countries that have said goodbye to coal, calling it a 'fuel of the past'.

Currently six nations in the world alone have the possibility of eliminating 82% of new coal mining plants: China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey and Bangladesh, while 40 countries have stopped planning future new plants coal and which are added to the 44 that already currently no longer exploit coal as a source of energy. Additionally, the report shows that coal decoupling has been effective worldwide in reducing emissions - a total of 1.175 gigawatts of coal mining projects have been canceled since 2015.

@ E3G

Coal is incompatible with the Paris Accords, and the world scientific community is clear on this: energy from coal must necessarily be replaced in the next two decades to combat climate change, '' he said. Christine Shearer, among the authors of the report. - The upcoming climate events are an opportunity that world leaders should not waste to imagine a future free from coal-fired power plants, in line with what scientists have predicted.

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Source: E3G

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