Has China Reached Peak Coal?

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Date of Publication: March 3, 2015

Year of Publication: 2015

Publisher: TriplePundit

Author(s): Alexis Petru

Energy data released lat week by the Chinese government shows a 2.9 percent drop in the country’s coal consumption in 2014. This is the first dip in coal consumption over the past 14 years and is linked to the first decline in China’s carbon emissions (0.70 percent) this century.

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