How to replace coal power with renewables in developing countries

May 29, 2020

Workers operate loaders unloading imported coal at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China December 5, 2019.

How can emerging economies retire coal power and achieve a sustainable energy transition? Image: REUTERS/Stringer

Donald Perry Kanak

Senior Fellow, The Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS)

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Global coal power capacity in operation around the world is large and growing Image: Carbon Brief

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