{"id":446060,"date":"2021-10-29T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446060"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:22:55","slug":"world-should-shut-nearly-3000-coal-plants-to-keep-on-climate-track-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/world-should-shut-nearly-3000-coal-plants-to-keep-on-climate-track-study\/","title":{"rendered":"World should shut nearly 3,000 coal plants to keep on climate track: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world will need to shut down nearly 3,000 coal-fired power plants before 2030 if it is to have a chance of keeping temperature rises within 1.5 Celsius, according to research by climate think tank TransitionZero.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published days before the U.N. COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, TransitionZero said there are currently more than 2,000 GW of coal-fired power in operation across the world, and that needs to be slashed by nearly half, requiring the closure of nearly one unit per day from now until the end of the decade. <\/p>\n<p>The need to close nearly 1,000 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity would put the onus on China \u2013 the world\u2019s biggest source of climate-warming greenhouse gas and owner of around half of the world\u2019s coal-fuelled plants \u2013 to accelerate its shift towards cleaner electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world will need to shut down nearly 3,000 coal-fired power plants before 2030 if it is to have a chance of keeping temperature rises within 1.5 Celsius, according to research by climate think tank TransitionZero. In a report published days before the U.N. COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, TransitionZero said there are currently more than 2,000 GW of coal-fired power in operation across the world, and that needs to be slashed by nearly half, requiring the closure of nearly one unit per day from now until the end of the decade. The need to close nearly 1,000 gigawatts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}