Sami Grover on Treehugger.com has news on the coal front:
Just as much of the world languishes in uncertainty over the future of a low carbon transition, the Globe and Mail reports that Canada steps up and announces an almost complete phase out of coal for electricity by 2030 at the latest. And this comes just a week after the UK confirmed its coal phase out plans, and France does too.
The France report catches me by surprise, so I checked it out. The Inertia‘s Alexander Haro provides some information:
François Hollande, the French President, stood in front of delegate at the UN’s annual climate change meeting and promised that France will have no coal-powered power plants by 2023.
Which makes sense – France is nuclear power rich, which is carbon-neutral once the plants are actually built. Until maintenance begins …
