COP26: Come approcciare la transizione energetica dall'industria del carbone

World sustainability, climate change, green energy are all topics that, especially in the latest years gained more and more importance among the society due to drastic and constant increase of the global warming and greenhouse emissions. The majority of those comes from a very small number of countries compared to the global landscape. China, United States, Russia and Europe are the ones that on an absolute basis emit the largest amount of CO2 emissions (Andres 2014). Nevertheless, all the emissions are projected to remain steady and the reduction of those in developed countries are expected to balance CO2 emission growth in developing countries (IEA 2021 s.d.). For this reason, it is important to consider a standardised framework of analysis to address energy transition to address climate change. Specifically, it will be taken as point of analysis the transition from the coal industry, one of the most polluting nowadays. Different examples of actual transitions along with a deep analysis of the current emission status, will be taken as main grounds to finally develop a standardised coal transition framework with the intention of helping in tackling all the different barriers that such a just action may actually encounter.