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Finishline42

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Sat Aug 15, 2020, 08:15 AM Aug 2020

Weekly update - Good Climate News

Weekly update from Twitter

Good climate news of the week
1 World’s coal falls for 1st time
2 Bangladesh may close 26 or 29 planned coal plants
3 Canada’s oil-sands emissions intensity down
4 BP announces oil & gas will fall by 40%, while its #renewables will rise 20-fold
5 EU eyes higher renewable targets

Last week

1 Germany: Green power hits record 50.2% of consumption in first half of 2020
2 UK: Largest pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
3 UK: Offshore wind farms set to be the 1st in the world to pay money back to consumers
4 Deutsche Bank exits coal

From >>> @AssaadRazzouk

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Weekly update - Good Climate News (Original Post) Finishline42 Aug 2020 OP
Thank you for the great news. Nt delisen Aug 2020 #1
K/R We need this good news! appalachiablue Aug 2020 #2
IEA: coal globally peaked in 2013. 2019 was 3.3% lower than 2013 progree Aug 2020 #3
this weeks good climate news Finishline42 Aug 2020 #4

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3. IEA: coal globally peaked in 2013. 2019 was 3.3% lower than 2013
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 10:37 AM
Aug 2020

Last edited Sat Aug 15, 2020, 08:45 PM - Edit history (3)

IEA: coal globally peaked in 2013, and has fallen since, albeit not in a straight line: there were small increases in 2017 and 2018
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-coal-consumption-1978-2019

In Mtce (millions of tons of coal equivalent)

1980: 2524
2000: 3328
2013: 5591 - peak
2016: 5349 - down 242 from 2013
2017: 5399 - up 50 over previous year
2018: 5433 - up 34 over previous year
2019: 5407 - latest from this source - down 26 over previous year
Down 3.3% from 2013 but way far higher than 1980 and 2000

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