China expects to achieve its national coal consumption cap targets in 2020, but the country’s aggressive goals could be tempered due to solid demand from power, steel and petrochemical industries, a government-backed study showed on Wednesday. China is the world’s biggest source of greenhouse gases and has pledged to bring emissions to a peak by “around 2030” as part of its commitments to the 2015 Paris accord. This would require coal consumption to be cut or replaced by renewable energy, but the growth of coal usage in the past four years has raised concerns over China’s ability to fulfill its commitment. China, also world’s biggest coal consumer, has aimed to reduce the proportion of coal in its energy mix to below 58% by 2020. Coal […]