Governments must send ‘unmistakable’ signal on clean energy at Cop26 – IEA

Coal has grown strongly this year despite climate efforts, the IEA says (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Consumption of coal is growing strongly this year, pushing up carbon emissions that drive climate change, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.

Solar, wind and electric vehicles are driving a shift towards a new clean energy world, but far too slowly to put emissions into sustained decline towards the “net zero” levels of pollution needed to curb dangerous global warming.