"Moving on from the world's dirtiest power plants presents a huge climate opportunity but social risk"
"LONDON - Shuttering the world's dirtiest power plants could help to eliminate vast amounts of planet-heating emissions that are threatening international climate goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).
From India to Poland, these super polluting power plants most often run on coal and emit tens of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
But simply shutting them down is no easy feat.
Context spoke with workers and experts across the globe about the social and economic barriers to bringing an end to "super polluter" coal-fired power plants that have a disproportionate impact on climate change.
"There is a small set of very egregious emitters that are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution emitted by the sector," said Don Grant, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who focuses on high-polluting power plants."
Beatrice Tridimas and Jack Graham report for Thomson Reuters Foundation October 29, 2024.
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