The electricity produced in the world from coal fell by 14% during the first half of 2016. This was revealed by a Global Coal Plant Tracker report.
The production of energy from coal was already going down in recent years, but at significantly
lower rates to what happened in these first six months of 2016. According to the data, the electricity produced from coal has fallen from 1,090 gigawatt beginning of 2016 to 932 GW in July. The reduction, 158 gigawatts, is comparable to all the energy produced from coal in the European Union. But it was not the European countries the main architects of the reduction, but China (-114 GW) and India (-40 GW).
NEW COUNTRIES VIRTUOSI. In recent months China and India had announced important measures targeted to a sharp reduction of coal power plants. Other Southeast Asian countries have followed their example: Vietnam, for example, has revised its energy plan and canceled or postponed the construction of coal-fired power plants nuve for a total of 23 GW, and Indonesia, which shifted to date to define the construction of coal-fired power plants to 7 GW.
IT IS NOT ENOUGH. It should however be pointed out that despite these results, although positive for the reduction of greenhouse gases and particulate air pollution, the use of coal in the world (with the many construction projects of new power plants) will produce a quantity of carbon dioxide that will not allow to contain the increase in the earth's temperature below 1.5 ° C.
The projections suggest that not even related deaths will decrease air pollution, which according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) are 6.5 million people a year.
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