{"id":7646,"date":"2018-11-25T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2018-11-25T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:27:11","slug":"the-world-needs-to-quit-coal-why-is-it-so-hard-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard? | The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Home to half the world\u2019s population, Asia accounts for\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/content\/dam\/bp\/en\/corporate\/pdf\/energy-economics\/statistical-review\/bp-stats-review-2018-full-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-fourths of global coal consumption<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0today. More important, it accounts for more than three-fourths of coal plants that are either under construction or in the planning stages \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a whopping 1,200 of them, according to\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/urgewald.org\/medien\/ngos-release-list-worlds-top-coal-plant-developers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urgewald, a German advocacy group<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that tracks coal development. Heffa Sch\u00c3\u00bccking, who heads Urgewald, called those plants \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an assault on the Paris goals.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/24\/climate\/coal-global-warming.html\">The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard? | The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Home to half the world\u2019s population, Asia accounts for\u00c2\u00a0three-fourths of global coal consumption\u00c2\u00a0today. More important, it accounts for more than three-fourths of coal plants that are either under construction or in the planning stages \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a whopping 1,200 of them, according to\u00c2\u00a0Urgewald, a German advocacy group\u00c2\u00a0that tracks coal development. Heffa Sch\u00c3\u00bccking, who heads Urgewald, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}