Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition: Research

Most of the coal mines that are likely to shut down have no planning underway to extend operations or to manage a transition to a post-coal economy.

But most of the mines likely to shut down “have no planning underway to extend the life of those operations or to manage a transition to a post-coal economy,” US-based think tank Global Energy Monitor warned. GEM looked at 4,300 active and proposed coal mine projects around the world covering a total workforce of nearly 2.7 million. It found that more than 400,000 workers are employed in mines set to cease operations before 2035.

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