{"id":144622,"date":"2021-09-17T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144622"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:08:56","slug":"new-research-finds-usd-billions-to-coal-power-projects-in-africa-asia-jeopardizing-energy-access-climate-agendas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144622","title":{"rendered":"New Research Finds USD Billions To Coal Power Projects In Africa, Asia Jeopardizing Energy Access, Climate Agendas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Chinese state-owned institutions, world\u2019s largest banks continue to finance coal power in countries with greatest needs for electricity access; USD 42 billion committed to grid-connected coal power plants between 2013-2019 in 18 countries studied&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIENNA, Austria, Sept 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0New research published today by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) highlights a troubling trend in the fight against climate change and push to deliver universal electricity access: despite environmental, economic and many other challenges facing coal, pockets of funders continue to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=41029\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=41029<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state-owned institutions, world\u2019s largest banks continue to finance coal power in countries with greatest needs for electricity access; USD 42 billion committed to grid-connected coal power plants between 2013-2019 in 18 countries studied&nbsp; VIENNA, Austria, Sept 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212;\u00a0New research published today by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}