{"id":135693,"date":"2025-12-21T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=135693"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:12:31","slug":"iea-declining-coal-demand-in-china-set-to-outweigh-trumps-pro-coal-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/iea-declining-coal-demand-in-china-set-to-outweigh-trumps-pro-coal-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump\u2019s pro-coal policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>Global coal demand is due to grow by 0.5% year-on-year to reach record levels in 2025, according to the latest figures in the IEA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/coal-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annual market report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this will be reversed over the next couple of years, as a faster-than-expected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expansion<\/a>\u00a0of renewables in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-china-and-india-account-for-87-of-new-coal-power-capacity-so-far-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key<\/a>\u00a0Asian nations and \u201cstructural declines\u201d in Europe push coal demand down, the agency says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/iea-declining-coal-demand-in-china-set-to-outweigh-trumps-pro-coal-policies\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Carbon Brief<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global coal demand is due to grow by 0.5% year-on-year to reach record levels in 2025, according to the latest figures in the IEA\u2019s\u00a0annual market report. 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