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The Future of Coal, the Paris Agreement & Conflict Resolution: Google Search Results as an Aid to Resolve the Controversy

TAGS: Paris Agreement; COP25; coal; future; risk; best available science; sustainable development; equity; scientific round-table; positions; interests
1.0    Any decision on this issue requires the Paris Agreement’s obligations to be implemented “on the basis of equity” - as well as “in accordance with the best available science”.
2.0   The results from a Google Search on “the future of coal” highlight the contradictory global positions held on this issue: While an international consensus is emerging for the position of a fast and orderly phasing out of coal mining and coal-generated energy, new coal supply and demand infrastructure continues to be developed.
3.0    But has clean coal technology R&D reached the stage of being the “best available science” for a decision to be made to resolve this controversy?
4.0   The challenge for COP25 is to promote a problem-solving pathway that counterbalances the "need" for an objective process to decide the future of coal and the "concern" over the lack of the best available relevant and reliable science on clean coal technology.
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