China vows to end funding for overseas coal power plants
Mining News Pro - China’s president Xi Jinping has pledged to stop backing new coal power plants overseas in a move that would cut off a key source of financing for projects involving the fossil fuel.
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India delays anti-pollution rules for coal power plants again
Mining News Pro - India’s environment ministry delayed anti-pollution guidelines for coal-fired power plants further, extending the compliance deadline by as long as two years.
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China’s new coal power plant capacity in 2020 more than three times rest of world’s: study
Mining News Pro - China put 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity into operation in 2020, according to new international research, more than three times the amount built elsewhere around the world and potentially undermining its short-term climate goals.
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Dubai gets Arab Gulf’s first, and perhaps last, coal power plant
Mining News Pro - The United Arab Emirates is set to become the first Arab Gulf country to generate electricity from coal. As governments increasingly turn to cleaner fuels and the price of renewable energy falls, it may also be the last.
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Coal power plants face $7.3 billion losses in Europe in 2019
Mining News Pro - Coal power generators in Europe face 6.6 billion euros ($7.3 billion) of losses this year as plunging renewable energy costs and cheap natural gas cut use of the dirtiest plants to a record low.
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