{"id":27669,"date":"2021-02-01T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/feb\/01\/world-kick-coal-habit-start-green-recovery-iea-fatih-birol"},"modified":"2021-02-01T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:52:32","slug":"world-needs-to-kick-its-coal-habit-to-start-green-recovery-says-iea-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27669","title":{"rendered":"World needs to kick its coal habit to start green recovery, says IEA head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy watchdog\u2019s Fatih Birol says shift away from coal in key regions needs to be made a global priority<\/p>\n<p>Dependency on coal in key parts of the world is preventing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/17\/what-could-a-good-green-recovery-plan-actually-look-like\">global green recovery<\/a> from taking off, and the shift away from coal needs to be made a global priority, the head of the world\u2019s energy watchdog has said<\/p>\n<p>Coal still forms a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/china-appetite-for-coal-power-stations-returns-despite-climate-pledge-capacity\">key part<\/a> of China\u2019s energy system, and plans are in train for further coal-fired power plants in the country. India is also heavily dependent on coal, and despite increasing its renewable energy generation has shown little sign of reducing its use of the fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/feb\/01\/world-kick-coal-habit-start-green-recovery-iea-fatih-birol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy watchdog\u2019s Fatih Birol says shift away from coal in key regions needs to be made a global priorityDependency on coal in key parts of the world is preventing a global green recovery from taking off, and the shift away from coal needs to be made a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"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":[41,50,326,589,493,65,492,1880,62,659,61,1803,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-green-economy","category-india","category-renewable-energy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-economy","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\/27669","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\/1533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions\/27670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}