Co-founder and lead analyst, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air; senior fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute: tracking & accelerating progress from polluting energy to clean air, with research and evidence.
Lauri Myllyvirta
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The coal "jump" that wasn't.
Complete data for May:
-total global coal imports +0.3% yoy
-thermal coal imports -7%!
March-May:
-total coal imports -2%
-thermal coal imports -6%
Met coal imports rose 7% in March-May, but that was just a partial reversal of an 8% drop in 2025.
Global CO2 emissions largely plateaued since 2013 thanks to clean energy growth - "next time someone shows you a graph of CO2 concentrations arguing that nothing is changing, show them how much worse it'd have been had we really done nothing to change our emissions trajectory."
Lauri Myllyvirta
Lauri Myllyvirta
The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.
