{"id":26045,"date":"2024-03-31T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=26045"},"modified":"2024-03-31T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T13:01:15","slug":"global-warming-why-we-should-forget-about-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/03\/31\/global-warming-why-we-should-forget-about-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming: why should we forget about coal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, most countries will close their power plants between 2024 and 2030. Portugal and Belgium have already done so. In France, the last two plants (Cordemais, Loire-Atlantique and \u00c9mile-Huchet, Moselle) have a permit to operate until December 31, 2024. Romania is counting on 2032 and Poland on 2049, unless there is a more ambitious project from the new government.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has pledged, without giving a date, not to build any new coal-fired power plants and to phase out existing ones. The country could be coal-free by 2035. Several Latin American countries have pledged to phase out coal by 2040, including recently Colombia, the world\u2019s sixth-largest exporter. The driving force behind this transition is Brazil, which uses only 2.41T3T of coal in its energy mix, but will subsidize its power plants until 2040. <em>(MARCO CASARETO, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.fr\/environnement\/rechauffement-climatique-pourquoi-faut-il-oublier-le-charbon-219318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">geo.fr<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, most countries will close their power plants between 2024 and 2030. Portugal and Belgium have already done so. In France, the last two plants (Cordemais, Loire-Atlantique and \u00c9mile-Huchet, Moselle) have a permit to operate until December 31, 2024. Romania is counting on 2032 and Poland on 2049, unless there is a more ambitious project from the new government. The United States will [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}