Mapped: The world’s coal power plants in 2020

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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants in 2020

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 16 days ago

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Since 2000, the world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity to around 2,045 gigawatts (GW) after explosive growth in China and India. A further 200GW is being built and 300GW is planned.

Cmon Japan, get it together.

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