{"id":2493,"date":"2024-05-01T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/g7-agrees-to-shut-down-coal-plants-by-2035-uk-minister-says-in-climate-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:38:40","slug":"g7-agrees-to-shut-down-coal-plants-by-2035-uk-minister-says-in-climate-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/g7-agrees-to-shut-down-coal-plants-by-2035-uk-minister-says-in-climate-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 agrees to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in climate breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ministers from the Group of Seven nations have agreed to shut down all their coal plants by 2035 at the latest, a UK minister said on Monday, in a climate policy breakthrough that could influence other countries to do the same. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do have an agreement to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s,\u201d Andrew Bowie, a UK minister at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, told Class CNBC in Turin, Italy. \u201cThis is, by the way a historic agreement, something that we weren\u2019t able to achieve at COP28 in Dubai last year.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, to have the G7 nations come around the table to send that signal to the world \u2014 that we, the advanced economies of the world are committed to phasing out coal by the early 2030s \u2014 is quite incredible.\u201d <\/p>\n

The US State Department declined to comment on the G7 agreement. Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that will require coal-fired power plants to either capture nearly all of their climate pollution or shut down by 2039. <\/p>\n

\u201cComing just days after the EPA released proposed new rules that will essentially lead to an accelerated phaseout schedule for most coal plants, this G7 commitment is a further confirmation from the US that coal is on its way out sooner rather than later,\u201d said Katrine Petersen, a senior policy advisor at climate think tank E3G. <\/p>\n

The commitment is \u201ca major step forward in particular for Japan, as the only G7 country left without a commitment to move away from coal,\u201d Petersen said. <\/p>\n

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Many of the other G7 nations already have national plans in place to phase out the fossil fuel. Around 16% of the G7s electricity comes from coal, Ember reports. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another nail in the coffin for coal,\u201d said Dave Jones, Ember\u2019s Global Insights program director. \u201cThe journey to phase out coal power has been long: it\u2019s been over seven years since the UK, France, Italy and Canada committed to phase out coal power, so it\u2019s good to see the United States and especially Japan at last be more explicit on their intentions.\u201d <\/p>\n

He warned, however, that while coal power has been falling, gas consumption continues. \u201cCoal might be the dirtiest, but all fossil fuels need to be ultimately phased out,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Fossil fuels are the main cause of the climate crisis. Almost every country in the world agreed last year to transition away from fossil fuels at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, but failing to put an end date on coal was seen as a shortcoming of those negotiations. <\/p>\n

Energy, environment and climate ministers are meeting in Turin for talks that are expected to end on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The G7 \u2014 made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the European Union as a member with special status \u2014 typically leads on global climate policy. The group\u2019s decisions often trickle down or influence the wider G20, which includes other big emitters, like China and India, as well as major fossil fuel producers, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia. <\/p>\n

This story has been updated with additional information.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n

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