Global coal demand increased 1 percent last year, following two years of declines, the IEA found. The IEA’s findings will undoubtedly feed into an increasingly urgent international climate dialogue about how to strengthen countries’ promises under the Paris climate agreement. The IEA results came even as a somewhat more optimistic report emerged from three environmental organizations that closely monitor the global coal industry. That change, however, isn’t happening fast enough to save the climate, the report found — in effect echoing the IEA’s findings. And whatever change is happening, it isn’t enough to put the planet on the course that world leaders have said they want — one that avoids the worst impacts of climate change.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2018 00:05 UTC