ThinkProgress: Chinese coal use peaked back in 2013, as Climate Progress first reported in May. Since China was responsible for some 80 percent of the growth in global demand since 2000 - and since the United States and most of the industrialized world have also started cutting coal use - the key remaining question for the dirtiest fossil fuel was, "Will a handful of developing countries, particularly India, see enough growth in coal consumption to overcome that drop?"
Goldman Sachs, among others, says the answer...