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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

view across open fields to the horizon as the sun is going down: it appears a scenic panorama at first glance but includes an open-cast coal mine and in one corner, tall concrete chimneys with billowing smoke and steam.
The Loy Yang coalmine and power plant in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia – one of the countries intending to increase coalmining. Photograph: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/The Guardian

Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown.

Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production for the coming decades than they did in 2023, the last time comparable data was compiled.

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