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• China's proposed coal mine developments risk creating an oversupply and derailing climate goals, according to Global Energy Monitor.
• The scale of China's coal ambitions threatens to overwhelm its own, and global, climate goals, with the country accounting for 60% of all proposed mine capacity worldwide.
• Without drastically scaling back plans for new mine capacity, the world could see a massive rise in potent methane emissions that would make it all but impossible to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, said Dorothy Mei, project manager of the Global Coal Mine Tracker at GEM.

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More than 450 sites are in development across China, with nearly 40% under construction or in test operation, according to the California-based researcher, which promotes clean energy use. If they are all built, their combined capacity of 1.35 billion tons a year would surpass that operating in Indonesia and Australia, the biggest exporters of the fuel for power generation and steelmaking.

The scale of China’s coal ambitions threatens to overwhelm its own, and global, climate goals. The country accounts for 60% of all proposed mine capacity worldwide, and its buildout alone would generate 80% of the methane emissions tied to planned projects, GEM said. Methane is more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.

“Without drastically scaling back plans for new mine capacity, the world could see a massive rise in potent methane emissions that would make it all but impossible to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement,” said Dorothy Mei, project manager of the Global Coal Mine Tracker at GEM.

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Deteriorating conditions in the state’s prisons and climate change could be a potentially deadly combination, advocates warn.

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Tuvalu se prepara para una migración histórica: el país insular podría quedar sumergido en 25 años por el aumento del nivel del mar. Ya comenzó un plan para reubicar a su población en Australia.

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After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.

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A new ruling from the International Court of Justice means that, at least in theory, the U.S. could be held liable for trashing climate regulations—and made to pay up.

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In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm

A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-stop shop for clean energy technologies.