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China, India slow global emissions growth, Trump’s polices will flatten US emissions 15th May 2017 Global leadership on climate is changing: Positive developments on coal use in China and India are likely to reduce projected global carbon emissions growth by roughly two to three billion tonnes by 2030 compared to forecasts made a year ago, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) said today. (full briefing) The recent, sweeping policy rollbacks by President Trump are unlikely to have a major impact on global emissions by 2030, according to the CAT analysis on China, India, and the US, released at the Bonn climate talks. “The highly adverse rollbacks of US climate policies by the Trump Administration, if fully implemented and not compensated by other actors, are projected to flatten US emissions instead of continuing on a downward trend,” said Prof Niklas Höhne, of NewClimate Institute. Meanwhile, both China and India are set to overachieve their Paris Agreement climate pledges. China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. India has stated that its planned coal-fired power plants may not be needed. If the country fully implements recently announced policies, India would see a significant slowing in the growth of CO2 emissions over the next decade.

http://climateactiontracker.org/news/278/China-India-slow-global-emissions-growth-Trumps-polices-will-flatten-US-emissions.html

Jovial Monk wrote on May 16^th, 2017 at 11:25am:

China, India slow global emissions growth,

China down 4.7%

"While China is the world's biggest consumer of coal, its consumption levels have dropped as economic growth slows to its lowest level since 1990."

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/breaking-news/china-coal-consumption-falls-for-3rd-year/news-story/15c0f8251cbd0f37ebc3aeba6b078476

Of course if economic growth picks up?

"India is currently the world’s third largest energy consumer;4 this position will be consolidated over the coming years, driven by economic development, urbanization, improved electricity access, and an expanding manufacturing base. Indeed, the IEA forecasts that India’s energy consumption will be more than OECD Europe combined by 2040, and rapidly approaching that of the U.S.

Like China before it, India’s economic growth will be fueled by coal. Thus, in 2012, 45% of total primary energy demand and 72% of generated electricity demand was met by coal. India currently has approximately 205 GW of coal-fired electricity generation capacity, which will soon be augmented by 113 GW of new coal-fired capacity currently under construction."

http://cornerstonemag.net/whats-driving-indias-coal-demand-growth/