Coal: scaling up clean power to hasten the decline?

This is what the latest World Energy Outlook seems to suggest. The analysis argues that after remaining consistently high over the past decade, global coal demand is now set to fall within the next few years. This projected trend reflects declines in recent years of capacity additions of both coal-fired power and coal-fired iron and steel production – the two largest consumers of coal today – which account for 65% and 16% respectively of overall coal consumption.