Optimist Daily: Clean energy surge leads to historic coal decline in China and India

For the first time in over five decades, coal-fired electricity generation has dropped in both China and India, the world’s two largest consumers of coal. This historic shift, outlined in new research from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and published by Carbon Brief, may signal the beginning of a long-anticipated global turning point in carbon emissions. The simultaneous dip in coal use by these energy giants hasn’t occurred since 1973. And according to analysts, this milestone is less about a dip in demand and more about a powerful surge in clean energy development that is reshaping the global energy landscape. Read MORE.