{"id":11332,"date":"2019-11-20T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/china-appetite-for-coal-power-stations-returns-despite-climate-pledge-capacity"},"modified":"2019-11-20T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:42:15","slug":"chinas-appetite-for-coal-power-returns-despite-climate-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11332","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s appetite for coal power returns despite climate pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity rose by 42.9GW in 18 months, far outpacing global efforts to cut use of fossil fuel<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s growing appetite for new coal-fired power stations has outstripped plant closures in the rest of the world since the start of last year, data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere countries reduced their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/coal\">capacity<\/a> by 8GW in the 18 months to June because old plants were retired faster than new ones were built. But over the same period China increased its capacity by 42.9GW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2019\/may\/25\/the-power-switch-tracking-britains-record-coal-free-run\">despite a global move towards cleaner energy sources<\/a> and a pledge to limit the use of coal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/china-appetite-for-coal-power-stations-returns-despite-climate-pledge-capacity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity rose by 42.9GW in 18 months, far outpacing global efforts to cut use of fossil fuelChina\u2019s growing appetite for new coal-fired power stations has outstripped plant closures in the rest of the world since the start of last year, data shows.Else&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,493,657,65,492,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-energy","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11333,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions\/11333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}