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IEA: Coal 'simply unsustainable' without more controls
2013-12-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: The International Energy Agency projected Monday that global demand for coal will continue to grow over the next five years, but warned that "coal in its current form is simply unsustainable." IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said, "radical action is needed" to control greenhouse gas emissions, but lamented, "Radical action is disappointingly absent." "As we look to the long term, we must ask what role coal has to play in the energy mix that we want to achieve -- because there will...
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