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China's infrastructure investments contain green and gray

(Photo courtesy Yale Climate Connections.) China keeps using coal- but has today's coal crunch hastened the dirty fuel's decline? 

Two Enormous Countries Burn Lots of Coal. That's a Cue for the Energy Transition.

Abdeali Saherwala
February 04, 2022
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India and China have been burning lots of coal this year. efore we dive into whether current coal use undermines the case for investing in the countries’ transition, let’s take a broad view of these two countries to see where governments’ energy choices might intrigue clean-energy investors.

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