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Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Bonn Powering Past Coal Alliance

It is launched in COP23, Bonn and led by UK and Canada. It has more than 20 members aimed at accelerating clean growth and achieving the rapid phase-out of traditional coal power.

Alliance declares that the coal phase-out is required in the OECD and EU28 by 2030, and no later than by 2050 in the rest of the world” to meet the Paris Agreement. But it does not commit signatories to any particular phase- out date. It also does not commit the signatories to end the financing of unabated coal power stations, rather just restricting it.