In July 2020, the German coalition government has approved a €40bn compensation package for power utilities, which operate hard coal-fired power plants in the country and should shut them down by 2038 at the latest.

Global coal demand is expected to reach around 5,600 million tonnes by 2024,

India spent 1.58 trillion rupees ($21.28 billion) on importing 247 million tonnes of coal,

Vietnam has spent around $2.6 billion on importing 36.5 million tons of coal in the first seven months of this year, up 50 percent in volume year-on-year.

The phase-out of coal-fired power generation in Germany is to be completed by 2038 at the latest

Indonesia had set the price for July at $52.16/mt, and for August 2019 at $72.67/mt.

According to data provided by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), Pakistan’s coal-fired power generation increased by 57 per cent in FY20. Moreover, coal made up about a fifth of Pakistan’s total output.

the United States consumed 6.5 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in April 2020,

“There is no such thing as clean coal, and coal should have no place in any rational recovery plan,” Guterres told an online audience of students and researchers in a lecture organised by Tsinghua University late on Thursday.

For the better part of three decades, from 1985 through 2014, net operating coal capacity in the United States exceeded 300 GW. By the end of 2020, it is expected to drop below 240 GW for the first time since 1978, and by 2030, based on plants scheduled for retirement, net capacity is expected to dip below 200 GW for the first time since 1975.