South America Sets Historic Benchmark: Zero New Coal Plants Planned

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardMay 21, 2025, 6:16 pm208 ptsTop
South America just achieved a remarkable energy milestone, quietly setting a global benchmark: for the first time in history, the entire continent now has zero new coal-fired power plants planned. To grasp how remarkable this is, we need only glance back a decade. When the Paris Agreement was signed in ...…

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