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Australia, Russia, China, and the U.S. have no plans to cut back on coal production

Russia, along with coal-producing countries like China, Australia, and the U.S., refused to join an initiative at COP26 last week to phase out the production of coal, the highly polluting fossil fuel.

On November 4, the UN’s Climate Change issued a press release stating that “at least 23 countries signed up to the commitments. Among them are five of the world’s top 20 coal power-using countries.”

The nations that made new commitments to phase out coal power include Indonesia, Vietnam, Poland, South Korea, Egypt, Spain, Nepal, Singapore, Chile, and Ukraine, among others. 

In a new ‘Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement’, countries also committed to scaling up clean power and ensuring a just transition away from coal.