Good news on coal, solar, innovation

There are about 20 free-to-read items in this week’s Fix the News. Among the items behind the paywall:

— Twenty-three countries have reduced their plans for building coal-fired power plants and 35 nations have eliminated coal from their plans entirely in the decade since the Paris Agreement on climate change, reports CarbonBrief. And China and India, the world’s largest coal consumers, have reduced their planned coal capacity by more than 60 percent.

As the fossil fuel that emits the most carbon dioxide when burned, coal long has been viewed by many as requiring a rapid phaseout, Carbon Brief says.