{"id":625878,"date":"2026-09-24T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625878\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:28:30","slug":"china-has-scrapped-two-thirds-of-its-planned-coal-power-plants-abroad-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625878\/","title":{"rendered":"China has scrapped two-thirds of its planned coal power plants abroad: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Five years after China pledged to stop building or financing new coal-fired power plants overseas, the country\u2019s state sector has made \u201csignificant progress\u201d towards meeting that goal, though private projects are still being developed, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two-thirds of China\u2019s overseas coal power projects planned five years ago have since been cancelled, a 61.5-gigawatt (GW) cut in capacity that has saved 6.4 billion tonnes of \u201clifetime\u201d carbon dioxide emissions, the study by a pair of climate-focused research organisations found.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the 12 months leading up to July, 3.4GW of capacity in Zimbabwe was spiked, as well as another 1.7GW in Bangladesh and 1.4GW in Indonesia, according to the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Philippines-headquartered People of Asia for Climate Solutions (PACS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years after China pledged to stop building or financing new coal-fired power plants overseas, the country\u2019s state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7861,32964,1083,114,220867,1657,184,13302,85,1445,282886,46,282884,338,282885,3463,42822,2621,39873],"class_list":["post-625878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bangladesh","tag-belt-and-road-initiative","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-centre-for-research-on-energy-and-clean-air","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-helsinki","tag-il","tag-indonesia","tag-international-institute-of-green-finance","tag-israel","tag-lizzie-frost","tag-pakistan","tag-people-of-asia-for-climate-solutions","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-tanzania","tag-united-nations-general-assembly","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}