https://www.scmp.com/rss/512079/feed ​​Ryan Rafaty is a political scientist and political economist at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, where he works on climate policy impact assessment with the Climate Econometrics project. He is also a senior research officer at Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking. Previously, Ryan obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge and was a climate economics consultant at the World Bank. His research has been published in various journals, including Science, Nature Climate Change... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Few of the many challenges of tackling climate change are more important in the short term yet as seemingly impenetrable as China’s slow-moving phasing out of coal. In 2020, China commissioned more than five times the coal-fired electricity capacity of the rest of the world combined. China’s investment decisions will shape the global market for coal in the coming decades, putting substantial power over global climate change mitigation in the hands of a few actors. Burdened by chronic... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170183/china-could-make-two-small-changes-dont-cost-earth-phase-out-coal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170183/china-could-make-two-small-changes-dont-cost-earth-phase-out-coal?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:15:09 +0000