Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future

The Ecologist
Dec 9, 2015, 10:22 am30 pts
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the world, write Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal…

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Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future

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