Energy ministers from the G7 countries have reached an agreement in principle to end the use of coal in electricity generation by the first half of the 2030s. The Russian service of Deutsche Welle writes about it.
“There is a technical agreement,” Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Piketo-Frattin said at a meeting in Turin on April 29.
The final agreement should be signed on April 30. At that time, the detailed plan for the decarbonization of the economy will be published.
G7 countries had already agreed to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2023, but the countries were unable to agree on a common deadline.
The final agreement will be a step towards achieving the goals agreed at the UN climate conference in Dubai in 2023. The outcome document of the COP28 international climate change conference calls for a phase-out of fossil fuels, but it does not explicitly stipulate a phase-out of coal, oil and gas.
Meanwhile, Italy, which holds the G7 presidency this year, plans to shut down all its coal-fired power plants by 2025, except for one on the island of Sardinia. Germany, where 26 percent of electricity still comes from coal-fired power plants, plans to phase out coal entirely by 2038.
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