Coal Exit: Different approaches to determining costs, benefits, and justice implications

by James Arnott, Aspen Global Change Institute

June 2020 Quarterly Research Review

Rapid coal phase-out is a key part of limiting warming below 2°C, and new research provides insight into how that could happen. A mix of climate and non-climate factors, as well as market and non-market drivers, are key to charting out a speedy and equitable transition.