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In Asia, coal power is still king – despite the fact that renewables are getting ever cheaper.
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam have signed up to build 80% of the world’s planned new coal plants, according to a new report from the London-based financial think tank Carbon Tracker.
But researchers say the coal plants are not only financially and environmentally unviable; they’ll also endanger the Paris climate goals that these countries have ratified.
As the rest of the world phases out coal power, and many existing plants become stranded assets, the big question is: Why build 600 new unprofitable coal-fired power plants?
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