IEA warns coal renaissance threatens climate crisis

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New report argues that without drastic policy action coal will rival oil as dominant energy source by 2017

Without urgent action to deliver a high carbon price or bring on line new unconventional gas reserves, coal is on track to displace oil as the global economy's dominant energy source, resulting in potentially...

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