Full Title: Boom and Bust 2020: Tracking The Global Coal Plant Pipeline
Author(s): Christine Shearer, Lauri Myllyvirta, Aiqun Yu, Greig Aitken, Neha Mathew-Shah, Gyorgy Dallos, and Ted Nace
Publisher(s): Global Energy Monitor, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)
Publication Date: March 25, 2020
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Description (excerpt):
For the fourth year in a row, most leading indicators of coal power capacity growth declined in 2019, including construction starts, amount of capacity permitted for construction, and amount of capacity in pre-permit development, according to the Global Coal Plant Tracker.
With climate concerns dominating headlines, builders of new coal plants face an increasingly adverse business environment, including widening restrictions by over 126 globally significant banks and insurers, as well as commitments to phase out coal and accelerate a transition to clean power by 33 national and 27 subnational governments.