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Lessons From the Coal Boom That Didn’t Happen
In 2015 when the Paris Agreement was reached, its new goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) was at risk of being dead on arrival because the world was on the verge of a coal-plant-building boom. In 2015, the world had 1,496 GW of …