Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
Replacing LNG with coal is basically not much of a difference in terms of emissions. Although burning gas is cleaner then coal, methane leaks and the energy it takes to liquefy the gas make total emissions pretty similar.
It also does not mean that nothing has been replaced by renewables. There are also some other factors, like higher EV sales, which need electricity to charge. That is long term a good thing, as even with pure coal electricity BEVs are better then ICE cars. When you then add renewables it becomes much better.