{"id":10244,"date":"2020-05-12T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:31:52","slug":"europe-is-getting-off-coal-even-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/europe-is-getting-off-coal-even-faster-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is getting off coal even faster than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Across Europe, countries are making strides toward a fossil-free future. In April, Austria and Sweden closed their last coal plants\u2014the latter nearly two years ahead of schedule\u2014officially eliminating coal from their countries\u2019 energy production.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 15 European countries have committed to exiting coal and have put necessary plans and measures in place, Gutmann says, but there\u2019s still a concern, she adds, about whether or not the remaining coal-powered fleet will go offline fast enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>The current COVID-19 pandemic and the world\u2019s precarious economic situation may actually help toward that goal. Across the world, it\u2019s become cheaper to invest in renewable energy than in coal, and many experts think the coronavirus pandemic will reinforce the importance of a renewable-powered future, especially as leaders look for ways to bounce back better while stimulating economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energymarketprice.com\/energy-news\/europe-is-getting-off-coal-even-faster-than-expected\">Energy Market Price<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across Europe, countries are making strides toward a fossil-free future. In April, Austria and Sweden closed their last coal plants\u2014the latter nearly two years ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,40],"tags":[1570,687,124,2318,332,341],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","category-weben","tag-austria","tag-coal","tag-energy","tag-fossil-free","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sweden","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10248,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/10248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}