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Five Asian nations account for 80 percent of the world’s newly planned coal power stations, according to a report published by the non-profit climate research think tank Carbon Tracker on Wednesday.
“China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan are responsible for 80 percent of the world’s planned new coal plants and 75 percent of existing coal capacity,” Carbon Tracker wrote. “In these five countries, 92 percent of planned coal units will be uneconomic, even under business as usual, and up to $150 billion could be wasted.”
China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Japan currently plan to build over 600 new coal plants between them, according to the report. The planned power stations are expected to generate “a total of 300 gigawatts of energy equivalent to around the entire electricity generating capacity of Japan,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) noted on June 30. The Asia-Pacific region consumed more than three-quarters o
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China is responsible for over a quarter of the world s greenhouse gas emissions but also the biggest investor in renewable energy. (AFP/JOHANNES EISELE)
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SHANGHAI: China s emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions rose 9 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 compared with pre-pandemic levels, driven by a carbon-intensive economic recovery and big hikes in steel and cement output, research showed on Thursday (May 20).
In the 12 months since China began relaxing COVID-19 lockdowns, total CO2 emissions exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 7 per cent, setting the fastest rate of growth since 2012, said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst with the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Ener