UN: Energy-related CO2 emissions hit new high in 2018

Great for plants and life on Earth. Bad news for utilities pretending they are ‘combatting climate change’ by exiting coal. “Coal-fired electricity generation accounted for 30% of global CO2 emissions. The majority of that generation is found today in Asia, where average plants are only 12 years old, decades younger than their average economic lifetime of around 40 years.”

Source: International Energy Agency Web | PDF