But the world’s second-largest economy still needs to navigate major challenges to meet its overall climate goals — the biggest being a booming demand for power
 
							India imported 176 million tons of thermal coal in 2023, with 26.2 million tons coming from Russia
 
							The biggest chunk of the losses will likely be borne by workers in carbon-intensive sectors, which employ almost 32 million people across the world
 
							Britain’s reliance on coal for electricity is set to end, over 140 years after it opened the world’s first coal-fired power station in London in 1882
 
							The country’s energy regulator has overseen the installation of 1,200 gigawatts of wind and solar power six years ahead of schedule
 
							China's coal-fired power is giving up market share to cleaner alternatives, amid the rapid installation of solar capacity and also wind sources
 
							Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank both looking to reduce lending commitments to coal mining
 
							New coal power was brought online in China – and Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Japan – while there was a slowdown in closures in Europe and the US
 
							Beijing said it will reduce coal consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by about 10% from 2020 levels by 2025
 
							Big cities are the places making a real impact on cutting emissions, the head of a global cities network says in the lead-up to the climate summit in UAE, which mayors will join for the first time
 
							Petrostates and oil, gas and coal companies still intend to keep on making trillions of dollars a year by increasing production
 
							Beijing’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will tell the COP28 climate meeting new energy sources aren’t reliable enough yet to replace coal and oil