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Japan is closing its old, dirty power plants – and that's bad news for Australia's coal exports

  • Written by Llewelyn Hughes, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Last month, the Japanese government announced a plan to retire its fleet of old, inefficient coal-fired generation by 2030. And what happens to coal power in Japan matters a lot to Australia.

Australia shipped more than A$9 billion dollars’ worth of thermal coal to Japan in 2019 – about 12% of our total thermal coal...

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