Coal accounts for about a third of all energy installed globally but is the most polluting fossil fuel. All governments have agreed it must be scrapped by 2040 to meet Paris Agreements targets.
At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, the biggest climate summit in five years, countries promised to phase down the use of coal to help limit warming to 1.5C above levels before the industrial revolution - a target set out in the Paris Agreement.
But China has ploughed on domestically. In 2021, construction started on 33 GW of new coal power plants, the most since 2016 and almost three times as much as the rest of the world put together. In Europe, where the Russian invasion of Ukraine meant a scramble for alternative energy sources and droughts stifled hydropower, the continent only saw a very minor increase in coal use.
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