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2400 coal-fired power plants planned despite climate-friendly pledges
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Coal-fired power plants have provided cheap energy for over a hundred years, and despite coal-burnings high emissions, about 2,400 are planned globally. A new study calculates that emissions from global energy generation must reach zero before the middle of the century to keep climate change below a two-degree Celsius temperature rise. Niklas Hohne of the New Climate Institute discusses the study with Living on Earths Helen Palmer and explains why building these plants is inconsistent with emissions...
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