China turns up the heat while the world dumps coal

The country is an outlier in the coal-fired world and threatens to derail global mission to meet climate change targets

07 April 2021 - 20:07 By Clyde Russell

As coal-fired power retreats across most of the globe, China is emerging as the last major stronghold of the polluting fuel and the biggest obstacle to meeting climate change targets...

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