Study: 80 per cent of coal reserves need to stay in the ground

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Fresh analysis reveals huge scale of global carbon bubble

The huge scale of the unburnable carbon reserves held by the global energy industry has again been underlined with the publication today of a major new study that concludes 80 per cent of coal reserves...

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