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Australia: Time for change: China flags peak in coal usage

2013-02-06 08:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Brisbane Times: China`s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end as the leadership shifts priorities towards energy conservation, say officials and policy advisers. The advisers predict China`s coal consumption will peak at only a fraction above current levels after the State Council, or cabinet, last week set an ambitious new total energy use target for the five-year plan ending 2015. "Coal consumption will peak below 4 billion tonnes," Jiang Kejun, who led the modelling team that advised...

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