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The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate

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Phasing out coal requires expanding the notion of a ‘just transition’ and a roadmap that specifies the sequence of coal plant retirement, the appropriate policy instruments as well as ways to include key stakeholders in the process.

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  1. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Jakob, Jan Christoph Steckel & Ottmar Edenhofer

  2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

    Jan Christoph Steckel & Ottmar Edenhofer

  3. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Frank Jotzo

  4. Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

  5. Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Laura Cornelsen

  6. Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

    Rohit Chandra

  7. Department of Economics of Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ottmar Edenhofer

  8. Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, UK

    Chris Holden

  9. School of Business and Economics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Andreas Löschel

  10. Fraunhofer Center for Economics of Materials, Halle, Germany

    Andreas Löschel

  11. Global Energy Monitor, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Ted Nace

  12. Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK

    Nick Robins

  13. Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Jens Suedekum

  14. Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., WA, USA

    Johannes Urpelainen

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Jakob, M., Steckel, J.C., Jotzo, F. et al. The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 704–707 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0866-1

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