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DOI	10.1038/s41558-019-0509-6
	Prospects for powering past coal
	Jewell J.; Vinichenko V.; Nacke L.; Cherp A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1758678X
EISSN	1758-6798
卷号	9 期号:8 页码:592-+
英文摘要	To keep global warming within 1.5 °C of pre-industrial levels, there needs to be a substantial decline in the use of coal power by 20301,2 and in most scenarios, complete cessation by 20501,3. The members of the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), launched in 2017 at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, are committed to “phasing out existing unabated coal power generation and a moratorium on new coal power generation without operational carbon capture and storage”4. The alliance has been hailed as a ‘political watershed’5 and a new ‘anti-fossil fuel norm’6. Here we estimate that the premature retirement of power plants pledged by PPCA members would cut emissions by 1.6 GtCO2, which is 150 times less than globally committed emissions from existing coal power plants. We also investigated the prospect of major coal consumers joining the PPCA by systematically comparing members to non-members. PPCA members extract and use less coal and have older power plants, but this alone does not fully explain their pledges to phase out coal power. The members of the alliance are also wealthier and have more transparent and independent governments. Thus, what sets them aside from major coal consumers, such as China and India, are both lower costs of coal phase-out and a higher capacity to bear these costs. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/101101
作者单位	Division of Physical Resource Theory, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; Centre for Climate and Energy Transformations, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jewell J.,Vinichenko V.,Nacke L.,et al. Prospects for powering past coal[J],2019,9(8):592-+.
APA	Jewell J.,Vinichenko V.,Nacke L.,&Cherp A..(2019).Prospects for powering past coal.Nature Climate Change,9(8),592-+.
MLA	Jewell J.,et al."Prospects for powering past coal".Nature Climate Change 9.8(2019):592-+.