Special climate envoy John Kerry has announced the Biden administration's latest climate pledge-to stop building new coal plants and shut down existing ones.
"We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities. The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants."
Citing the International Energy Agency's Net Zero Roadmap, the Power Past Coal Alliance said in a Dec. 2 statement that, in order to "Keep the 1.5°C goal within reach," advanced economies such as the United States need to immediately end the construction of new coal power plants and phase out existing plants by 2030 and by 2040 in the rest of the world.
More than half of that output was in China, which is building new coal plants at a fast pace, undeterred by various climate pledges and goals that the country's leadership has paid lip service to.
Coal Use in China, Elsewhere China saw coal power projects jump in 2022, even as the country pledged to pare coal consumption by the end of the decade.
In 2022, coal power construction starts, new project announcements, and plant permissions "Accelerated dramatically" in China, according to a February report by Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, which noted that roughly two new coal power plants were being permitted per week in China.
"A total of 106 GW of new coal power projects were permitted, the equivalent of two large coal power plants per week. The amount of capacity permitted more than quadrupled from 23 GW in 2021."
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