Most of 1200 new coal plants planned are in countries which aren't obligated to reduce CO2

3/9/13, "It’s coal, stupid," "If you’re worried about global warming, oil isn’t the problem," Toronto Sun, Lorrie Goldstein, opinion

"While coal use in America has recently declined, primarily because of the increasing availability of cheap natural gas through fracking technology, coal usage in the developing world is increasingly exponentially.

So much so, that in December, 2012, the International Energy Agency reported that coal is rapidly closing in on oil as the world’s top energy source, and that if current consumption patterns hold, coal will surpass oil shortly after 2017.

The enormity of addressing this issue is underscored by the findings of a recent World Resources Institute study, reported in the Guardian newspaper.

The WRI identified 1,200 coal plants in the planning stages in 59 countries — three quarters of them in India (455 plants) and China (363 plants) alone. Since most of these countries are in the developing world, they’re exempt from having to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations’ Kyoto and post-Kyoto regulatory regimes."...





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