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In the context of global green and low-carbon development and energy transition, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries jointly established the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) in November 2017, calling on countries around the world to quickly phase out traditional coal-fired power generation, to proactively promote clean economic development, and to protect climate. Although at present the alliance’s influence is limited, reducing coal use and promoting the global green and low-carbon transition will be an inevitable requirement to tackle climate change in the long run. As a major coal consumer, though China can’t completely abandon the use of coal in the short term, we have made great efforts to control the total amount of coal consumption by deepening the reform of the supply-side structure and eliminating outdated overcapacity.
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Chen, Y. (2022). Development Trends, Possible Impacts, and Countermeasures of the Powering Past Coal Alliance. In: Xie, F., Liu, Y. (eds) Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2018). Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6422-0_7
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