{"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":"
‘…Home to half the world\u2019s population, Asia accounts for\u00c2\u00a0three-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\u00a0Urgewald, 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’<\/p>\n