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How to win big for the climate: rein in the ‘super polluters’

Just 5% of the world’s power plants account for almost three-quarters of carbon emissions from electricity generation.
Smoke and vapor rising from the cooling towers and chimneys of the power plant Niederaussem

The Niederaussem facility near Bergheim, Germany, ranked among the top ten power plants for carbon emissions in 2018. Credit: Oliver Berg/DPA/AFP/Getty

A crackdown on a limited number of ‘hyper-emitting’ power plants could yield outsize cuts in the carbon emissions resulting from global electricity generation.

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Nature 595, 628 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01983-z

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