Resumen de Coal bust is driving drop in emissions
The link between economic growth and rising greenhouse gas emissions may have finally been broken. Last week, they learned that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels failed to rise in 2014--the first time that has happened without an economic downturn. Now they know why. Although coal plant construction tripled globally after 2005, that boom is turning to bust. An analysis by CoalSwarm, a think tank supported by the Sierra Club and other US NGOs, has found that since 2010 hundreds of coal plant projects worldwide have been shelved or canceled--with two abandoned for every one completed.
