{"id":33561,"date":"2021-06-30T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/30\/five-asian-countries-80-percent-new-coal-power-investment"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:01:24","slug":"five-asian-countries-account-for-80-of-new-coal-power-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33561","title":{"rendered":"Five Asian countries account for 80% of new coal power investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units<\/p>\n<p>Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world\u2019s planned new coal plants, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon Tracker, a financial thinktank, has found that China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/23\/most-new-wind-solar-projects-cheaper-than-coal-report\">renewable energy is cheaper than most new coal plants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/30\/five-asian-countries-80-percent-new-coal-power-investment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power unitsFive Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world\u2019s planned new coal plants, according to a report.Carbon Tracker, a fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"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":[41,6,50,326,589,493,65,492,62,156,88,61,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-india","category-indonesia","category-japan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions\/33562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}