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Coal resists pressure

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Calls to curtail exploitation of coal reserves are rife, but the industry has other ideas — Sonja van Renssen explores the issues.

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Figure 1: Potential CO2 reductions from China's coal control measures compared with EU and US climate targets per year.

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