BusinessWorld May 23, 2021 | 6:22 pm REUTERS GOVERNMENTS must consider all available technologies, including advances in âclean coal,â in their strategies for achieving net-zero emissions, a UK-based coal industry group said last week. âOur focus has to be on… deploying the best-available clean technologies, whatever they might be, including clean coal technologies, so that they can actually play their part in (reaching) our overall global community goal of net zero,â World Coal Association (WCA) Chief Executive Officer Michelle M. Manook told BusinessWorld in a video call on May 17. âIt shouldnât be that we dismiss coal outright. We need to look at coal in terms of, how it can actually position itself for the next generation of clean, efficient plants,â she added.