BusinessGreen: Coal will remain a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe unless UK and EU policymakers take urgent action, campaign group Sandbag has warned today.
The group's new report warns that while rising levels of renewables capacity helped push down fossil fuel generation by 4.3 per cent between 2010 and 2013, it has mainly replaced cleaner gas generation leaving the more carbon-intensive coal sector largely untouched.
As a result, carbon emissions from coal power rose six per cent across...