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Powering Past Coal Alliance declaration

An alliance of nations, states, cities and organisations committed to moving the world from burning coal to cleaner power sources.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 16 November 2017
• Last updated: 4 January 2023
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  1. 4 January 2023

     Declaration text updated, and link to Alliance members corrected.

  2. 5 November 2018

     South Chungcheong Province, South Korea added to list of countries / states.

  3. 14 September 2018

     10 new states and cities added to the list of alliance partners.

  4. 10 April 2018

     List of alliance partners updated as of 9 April 2018.

  5. 12 December 2017

     Partners list updated to include: State of California, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Latvia, Liechtensten, State of Oregen, Sweden, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. 24 businesses and organisations have also signed up.

  6. 16 November 2017

     First published.

Documents

Powering Past Coal Alliance: Declaration

PDF, 135 KB, 1 page

Powering Past Coal Alliance: members

https://poweringpastcoal.org/members/

Details

Coal-fired power plants produce almost 40% of global electricity, and coal-fired power generation emits twice as much CO2 as gas per unit of electricity, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change.

On 16 November 2017 an alliance committed to moving the world from burning coal to cleaner power sources was launched at COP23, the UN climate change talks.

This declaration sets out the commitments. The alliance partners are listed on the Powering Past Coal website, along with further information about the Alliance.