This week the National Press Club in Canberra hosted Michelle Manook, chief executive of Futurecoal - the reincarnation of the World Coal Association - who put forward its new, bright, vision for sustainable coal stewardship.

This accepts the necessity for decarbonisation to address climate change, but justifies the long-term, expanding use of coal via a range of advanced coal technologies to reduce its high carbon emission levels, along with the necessity to provide the Global South with a low-cost energy growth path.

This is an evolution of technologies which have been promoted by the industry for decades as it gradually moved from outright climate change denial in the 1990s, to grudging public acceptance of its reality more recently, driven by undeniable evidence of accelerating clima

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