China too slow to cut off its coal plant pipeline, says report

A new report out last week claims that China is still building out its pipeline of overseas coal plants, despite promising to stop doing so at the last COP26 climate summit’ A report from the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, in conjunction with People of Asia for Climate Solutions, shows that the ban on overseas coal plants has not extended to projects where work had already begun. The report cites 27 plants (23 GW) nearing completion at the time of the statement, and a further 14 plants (7.6 GW) where it was already too late and the plants have begun to operate – all of which are now likely to come online. Collectively these will produce some…