Coal was on the way out. That’s how it looked last year, anyway, when the International Energy Agency forecast that global demand for the dirtiest fossil fuel had plateaued and was poised to start declining. But this year hasn’t gone as expected. The agency recently...
Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbour. Two-way trade is expected to reach $20-billion...
Доступно на русском When Europe began moving away from Russian energy in 2022, many expected one of the main pillars of the Russian economy to fall into a deep crisis. Formally, that did not happen. Russia remains one of the world’s largest exporters of gas and...
Five years ago, over 40 countries pledged to scale back and phase down unabated coal power at the COP26 UN Climate Summit by 2030-2040, with hundreds of institutions promising to end international coal financing. Three years later, the Group of Seven (G7) nations,...
Irans deepening conflict in the Persian Gulf has upended oil and gas markets. It may also have provided coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel — with its most significant boost in years. Climate negotiators have been trying for decades to consign coalto history. That task...
