It’s tempting to take the champagne-fueled view that the historic global climate agreement reached in Paris signals the death of coal, but even if the dirty fuel is terminal, it will be a long, lingering demise before the final hacking cough. This is simply because coal is, and will remain for decades, the main fuel in the world’s top and third-biggest emitters, China and India. While China has changed direction on coal fairly dramatically in the past two years, its pledge at the climate summit that ended last weekend in the French capital is only that its emissions will peak by 2030. That means the Chinese are allowing themselves 14 more years of increasing […]