Burning coal is many things: it’s dirty, carbon intensive, expensive and, a massive threat to public health. It’s also not a solution to the climate crisis. This should be evident to anyone familiar with the warnings from the IPCC and IEA. The construction of coal plants will soon lock in emissions that will exceed 2°C warming. Approximately 80% of the world’s coal reserves cannot be burned if we are to stay below this threshold.  Many of this understand this, although, apparently this is not evident to Japan.  Japan has relentlessly argued that burning unlimited amounts of coal in slightly more … Continue reading Coal: A New Climate Solution?