Is the planet willing to end the age of coal and adopt clean energy?

Electricity exposure has changed the globe, helping countries develop their markets, and bringing millions out of poverty. However, this success has come at a great cost: the power sector, heavily dependent on fossil fuels, is liable for some 40 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions–one of the so-called greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the Earth–and almost two-thirds of those emissions come from coal....