If it is to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement, the EU will have to phase out all the coal-fired power stations – numbering over 300 – within its borders by 2030, argues a report by climate research institute Climate Analytics, published on Thursday 9 February.
In the report, “A stress test for coal in Europe under the Paris Agreement”, researchers calculate that to stay within the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature limits of “well below” 2˚C and “pursuing efforts...