Full Title: No New Coal by 2021: The Collapse of the Global Coal Pipeline
Author(s): Chris Littlecott, Leo Roberts, Öykü Senlen, Jesse Burton, Madhura Joshi, Christine Shearer, Matt Ewen
Publisher(s): Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd (E3G)
Publication Date: September 13, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
The global pipeline of proposed coal power plants has collapsed by 76% since the Paris Agreement in 2015, bringing the end of new coal power into view.
United Nations Secretary General Guterres has called for ‘no new coal by 2021’, while COP President Designate Alok Sharma has called for COP26 in November 2021 to ‘consign coal to history’.COP26 provides the ideal moment for governments to turn off the tap of new coal construction.
This report analyses the dynamics of the global coal pipeline since 2015, tracking the collapse of the capacity pipeline and the increasing number of countries with no plans for new coal. It demonstrates how ‘no new coal’ is within reach globally. A rapidly shrinking group of laggard countries are still currently pursuing new coal. They are increasingly in the spotlight and under peer pressure to follow the global trend and cancel their project pipelines.