Coal
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, the first simultaneous drop in half a century, after each nation added record amounts of ... Read More
China’s coal demand is set to drop by 2027, more than cancelling out the effects of the Trump administration’s coal-friendly policies in the US, ... Read More
China and India accounted for 87% of the new coal-power capacity put into operation in the first half of 2025, whereas other regions continued to mov... Read More
Last year, China started construction on an estimated 95 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity, enough to power the entire UK twice over. It a... Read More
Nearly 60 countries have drastically scaled back their plans for building coal-fired power plants since the Paris Agreement in 2015, according to fig... Read More
The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will close this month, ending a 142-year era of burning coal to generat... Read More
Over the past 10 years, the global energy transition away from coal has accelerated. The number of countries with coal power under development (pre-c... Read More
Expanding and decarbonising the world’s electricity supplies is key to meeting global climate goals – and this has been reflected in a serie... Read More
As prime minister of India for the past decade, Narendra Modi has overseen a rapid expansion of the country’s coal-mining and coal-fired power gene... Read More
China accounted for 95% of the world’s new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monit... Read More
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.7% in 2023 to their lowest level since 1879, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. The last time U... Read More
