The latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclude that we are quickly using up our carbon “budget” – the amount of carbon that we can afford to emit and still have a good chance of limiting global warming to 2º Celsius. And, when it comes to tolerable CO2 emissions, coal is the budget buster.

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