BEIJING,– Coal power has no place in a post-coronavirus economic recovery plan, the UN chief said Thursday in a speech broadcast in China, which has reportedly stepped up production of the polluting energy source. “There is no such thing as clean coal, and coal should have no place in any rational recovery plan,” Antonio Guterres said, in a video address televised at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. “We need to stop wasting money on fossil fuel subsidies and the funding of coal,” he said. Countries around the world are devising massive economic … Continue reading UN chief tells China coal has no place in post-COVID recovery