'Coal is not the direction we need to move in' warns US climate envoy as UK defends new mine

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'Coal is not the direction we need to move in' warns US climate envoy as UK defends new mine
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John Kerry has said he is closely examining the UK's approval of a new coal mine amid concerns that it will raise greenhouse gas emissions 🔴 The UK insists opening a new coal mine is necessary because the alternative is imports

The Government has said it will be in line with the UK’s target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, partly because it is scheduled to close by the end of 2049.

“Because of the pressures of Ukraine you’ve seen some coal-fired plants kept online as a hedge,” he said. “Even that has received a certain amount of criticism from countries that say: ‘You guys are do as we say, not do as we do,’ and that can undermine diplomacy.” “We’re going in the right direction but not fast enough and big enough. I think what’s confounding and troubling is why it is that something is so scientifically provable, why it is that human beings resist moving in the obvious direction to dealing with that.”, he said: “Coal is not exactly the direction that the world is trying to move in, or needs to move in.

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