UN’s 10-year deadline to shut down coal comes as a ‘shock to a lot of people’

The Australian’s Environmental Editor Graham Lloyd says the United Nations' 10-year deadline to shut down Australia's coal mining would have come as a “shock to a lot of people”.

This comes after a UN climate roadmap released today at ANU’s 2021 Crawford Leadership Forum revealed OECD countries have been given until 2030 to close their coal mining industries.

“What it shows is we’re really reaching the pointy end of the countdown to the climate conference in Glasgow which is scheduled for November,” Mr Lloyd told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“Boris Johnson has made ending coal one of the deliverables from the conference and I think we’re seeing a lot more attention being paid to that as the other ambitions, setting a 1.5 degree maximum, et cetera, fall away.”

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