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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

G7 agree to end use of unabated coal power plants by 2035

power plant from a distance during sunset
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, the UK’s last coal-fired plant, will close down in September. Photograph: Matthew Vincent/PA

Ministers from the G7 countries agreed on Tuesday to end the use of unabated coal power plants by 2035 – but left the door open for those heavily reliant on coal to breach the deadline.

After two days of talks in Turin, Italy, they published a pledge to “phase out existing unabated coal power generation in our energy systems during the first half of 2030s” to curb the rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.

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