Recent collaborations
- Asset Impact: Development of a climate assessment tool for financial institutions.
- Beyond Fossil Fuels: Development of unit-level gas plant data and review of coal plant data in Europe.
- Carbon Mapper: Collaboration to increase shared understanding, accessibility, and actionability of global methane remote sensing data in the context of energy, infrastructure, and production data.
- Carbon Tracker Initiative: Economic modeling of coal and gas plants.
- Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA): Twice-yearly analyses of China’s power system.
- Coal Action Network United Kingdom: Report on metallurgical coal mining and steel production in the United Kingdom.
- Ember: National capacity data in the Electricity Explorer and coal mine methane emissions dashboards.
- Environmental Integrity Project: Development of unit-level gas plant data for the United States.
- E3G: Analysis of the global shrinkage in the coal fleet since 2015.
- Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI): Development of Net Zero Steel, a methodology for defining and tracking steel decarbonization pathways and a hub for information on low-emissions steelmaking.
- Investigate Europe: Exposé on Europe’s Energy Charter Treaty.
- Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT): Development of Green Steel Tracker and Green Cement Tracker for low-emissions steel production technology.
- Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform: Social and environmental impacts of private equity investments through the Private Equity Climate Risks consortium.
- Raven Ridge Resources: Development of global coal mine methane estimates.
- RENEW-Industry: Facilitation of newsletter and webinars to disseminate research, news, and employment/funding opportunities in heavy industry decarbonization.
- Rocky Mountain Institute: Rocky Mountain Institute and GEM have collaborated on data as it relates to their Oil Climate Index (+ gas) tool.
- Solutions for Our Climate: GEM developed this first-of-its-kind mini-tracker in conjunction with SFOC—to document conventional large-scale LNG carriers that are involved in the transportation or regasification of LNG.
- SteelWatch: Development of corporate score cards to benchmark climate action of major steel companies.
- TransitionZero: Development of methodology to use satellite imagery to estimate the utilization rate of steel and cement facilities.
- WattTime: Mapping features of gas-fired and coal-fired power plants for enabling more accurate satellite-based emissions estimates.
Partnership spotlight: Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)
In 2025, as clean energy put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for the first time and drove down coal power generation, new and reactivated coal power project proposals surged to a record high, while capacity additions that came online reached the highest annual level in a decade.
GEM and CREA's H2 2025 coal power review reveals that China’s new and reactivated coal power project proposals broke through a new ceiling and surged to 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2025, a record high.
Indonesia’s operational and planned captive coal capacity now triples the nation’s 2023 base capacity, exceeds that of Australia’s current total coal fleet, and nearly ties with the entire coal capacity of Germany.
According to a January 2026 analysis by CREA and GEM, Indonesia’s operational and planned captive coal – or industrial coal power not connected to the national grid – now reaches 31 GW.
While China’s unprecedented clean energy growth in 2025 has led to a drop in coal power output and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, coal power projects continue on the uptick despite the building momentum of the clean energy transition and climate deadlines.
GEM and CREA's H1 2025 coal power review reveals a boom in commissioned coal projects, while new and revived proposals are the highest in a decade, both upward trends after some signs of cooling in 2024.
GEM partners with CREA and many other organizations on our annual flagship coal report, Boom and Bust. The report analyzes key trends in coal power capacity and tracks various stages of capacity development including planned retirements. This provides key insights into the status of the global phaseout of coal power and evaluates progress towards the world’s climate targets and commitments.
The 2025 report found that global coal power additions in 2024 dropped to their lowest level in 20 years, yet the world’s coal fleet continued to grow.
