Coal Archives - Global Energy Monitor

Construction starts on new coal plants on track to hit a record low

Flora Champenois
November 2023

Scraping By 2023: Global coal miners and the urgency of a just transition

Ryan Driskell Tate, Dorothy Mei, Tiffany Means, and Satomi Sugaya
October 2023

Emerging captive coal power in Indonesia: Dark clouds on clean energy’s horizon

Lucy Hummer, Flora Champenois, and Jobit Parapat & Katherine Hasan (CREA)
September 2023

Chinaʼs new coal power spree continues as more provinces jump on the bandwagon

Flora Champenois, Zhang Xing, and Lauri Myllyvirta, Qin Qi,CREA
August 2023

India Enters an Unnecessary Coal Plant Permitting Spree in 2023

CREA and Global Energy Monitor
August 2023

PDP8: Vietnam inches closer to commissioning its last new coal plant, but key coal phaseout and participation questions remain

Lucy Hummer and Flora Champenois
June 2023

Colombian Coal Mining at the Crossroads

Gregor Clark and Ryan Driskell Tate
April 2023

Boom and Bust Coal 2023: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline

Global Energy Monitor, CREA, E3G, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Solutions for Our Climate, Kiko Network, CAN Europe, Bangladesh Groups, Alliance for Climate Justice & Clean Energy, and Chile Sustentable
April 2023

China permits two new coal power plants per week in 2022

Lauri Myllyvirta (CREA), Aiqun Yu, Flora Champenois, and Xing Zhang
February 2023

The Fossil Fuel Lobbyist List

James Browning
The Fossil Fuel Lobbyist List
November 2022

Methane Corporates: 30 Companies Responsible for Nearly Half of the Energy Sector’s Methane Emissions

Mason Inman and Ryan Driskell Tate
November 2022

Why India’s New Coal Mines Won’t Solve its Power Crisis

Ryan Driskell Tate, Tiffany Means, and Medha Kapoor
October 2022

Opacity and Accountability: The Hidden Financial Pipelines Supporting New Coal

Ted Nace
October 2022

China’s power and steel industries continue to invest in coal-based capacity, complicating carbon goals

Caitlin Swalec and Xinyi Shen (CREA)
September 2022

Why China’s Coal Mine Boom Jeopardizes Short-Term Climate Targets

Ryan Driskell Tate and Yedan Li
May 2022

Boom and Bust Coal ’22: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline

Global Energy Monitor, CREA, E3G, Sierra Club, SFOC, Kiko Network, CAN Europe, LIFE, BWGED, BAPA, and Waterkeepers Bangladesh
April 2022

Bigger Than Oil Or Gas? Sizing Up Coal Mine Methane

Ryan Driskell Tate
March 2022

Most coal power plants since 2016 entered construction in China in 2021, investment in coal-based steelmaking accelerated

CREA and Global Energy Monitor
February 2022

Asia’s Coal Bust Risks Being Followed by a Gas Boom

Robert Rozansky and Christine Shearer
December 2021

US Coal Retirement Rate Needs to Increase by 66% to Keep 1.5°C Within Reach

Flora Champenois and Christine Shearer
November 2021

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