Melissa Brown - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/502781/feed Melissa Brown (mbrown@ieefa.org) is director of energy finance studies, Asia, at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Melissa Brown - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com China is a global technological leader in renewable energy and is the world's largest consumer of solar power. Both of these accomplishments came after Chinese policy leaders realised that coal-fired power generation stood in the way of cleaner skies and lower cost power. Yet in October, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang renewed the focus on what the global public relations arm of the mining industry calls “clean coal” with comments on China’s potential for development of new coal and coal bed methane... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3037206/problem-chinas-clean-coal-push-there-no-such-thing-clean-coal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3037206/problem-chinas-clean-coal-push-there-no-such-thing-clean-coal?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:00:19 +0000 The problem with China’s ‘clean coal’ push is that there is no such thing as ‘clean coal’