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Has coal burning finally peaked in China?

One of the world's biggest environmental challenges is getting China off coal. The country has accomplished a lot of things in the past few decades, bringing hundreds of millions of people out of an almost medieval level of poverty, but the breakneck pace of modernization resulted in some massive problems that need to be corrected as fast as possible, and coal is at the root of many of the biggest. For example, China is now the emitter of CO2 (though a lot of it to manufacture things that people in other countries buy), it suffers 670,000 smog-related deaths each year, and pollution is now the cause of social unrest.

Thankfully, there's been signs that we might be reaching a tectonic shift in China's relationship with coal. TreeHugger Sami has been covering the issue well, and the latest numbers out of the most populous country on Earth provide some more evidence of this.

Source: Treehugger.com