Rural poor aren't going to wait for centralised clean coal

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Carbon Tracker's Anthony Hobley hits out at coal industry claims it can alleviate poverty in developing world

Global coal is on the ropes. Prices of thermal coal have collapsed as demand evaporates; stocks have crashed and companies are going to the wall. The industrialised world is seeing falling demand, leading...

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