{"id":671836,"date":"2026-05-15T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:23:15","slug":"india-and-china-double-down-on-coal-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671836\/","title":{"rendered":"India and China double down on coal consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is by far the world\u2019s largest carbon emitter, which has been driven by its insatiable appetite for coal:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/China-energy-consumption-by-source-output.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"464\" alt=\"China coal use\"\/><\/p>\n<p>China has a significant number of new coal mines in development:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Coal-capacity-under-development.png\" width=\"587\" height=\"660\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Coal capacity under development\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 large coal units\u2014individual boiler and turbine sets with generating capacity of 1 gigawatt or more\u2014were commissioned in China in 2025, up from fewer than 20 a year over the previous decade:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/China-new-coal-units.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"497\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"China new coal units\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is by far the world\u2019s largest carbon emitter, which has been driven by its insatiable appetite for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-671836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}