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Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, September 8th

China plans to peak coal consumption by 2025 but, amid economic recovery, imports of the fuel from Colombia grew 150% last year. Can it last?

On July 16, 2021, after nearly two decades of research and preparation, China finally opened what is now the world’s largest national emissions

20 May 2021 There’s one statistic that was included in the International Energy Agency (IEA) net zero report earlier this week that stands out above every single one. The thing about no longer investing in any new fossil fuel infrastructure was big, but to me, advanced the call for OECD countries to completely shut down their coal-fired power stations by the year 2030 to align with net zero by 2050 is the really, really big one. As Ember Climate showed in their webinar, it is the rapid shut-down of coal that brings us the vast majority of emissions reductions in the next ten years, alongsid...

27 April 2021 One of the more insidious claims at last week’s ‘Leaders Climate Summit’ coming from Australia’s leadership – namely, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy and Emissions Reductions Minister Angus Taylor – is that Australia has been a global leader in climate action, and particularly for renewable energy. “We are deploying renewable energy ten times faster than the global average per person. We have the highest uptake of rooftop solar in the world”. In some senses, it is true. Australia really does have the world’s highest per-capita installations of sola...