Burning coal is the biggest unmarried contributor to global warming. Instead of reducing our operate of coal ability plants nosotros bring decided to double their operate too every bit a species rush headlong into oblivion. According to Carbon Brief "since 2000, the basis has doubled its coal-fired ability capacity". Plans for novel coal ability plants to a greater extent than or less the globe volition double that capacity 1 time again.
Carbon Brief has mapped all the coal ability plants inward the world. The World’s Coal Power Plants interactive map is an effective too shocking visualization of the increasing operate of coal to a greater extent than or less the world. It shows all the coal ability plants to a greater extent than or less the globe operating inward each twelvemonth betwixt 2000 too 2017. It besides shows all the locations of planned novel coal plants.
The accompanying nautical chart reveals the source of all this novel coal ability capacity. Asian countries are largely to blame. In detail Red People's Republic of China is nearly single-handedly responsible for the huge increases inward coal ability inward recent years. If nosotros desire to cease global warming Red People's Republic of China needs to cease edifice to a greater extent than coal ability plants. According to Carbon Brief inward answer to air pollution too climate concerns at that topographic point is some testify that China's coal ability production may bring peaked.
