The Coal Transition Commission (CTC) was established to develop a shared plan for addressing this challenge, as part of the broader Coal Transition Accelerator launched by France at COP28 in order to facilitate just transitions from coal to clean energy.
This report by the CTC identifies around 150 gigawatts of operating coal capacity worldwide, roughly one third of the assessed fleet, as near-term opportunities for exploring early retirement and replacement with clean energy.
The report outlines pathways to grow today’s modest set of coal retirement projects into a scalable global project pipeline, demonstrating that successful coal-to-clean transitions depend on combining transition-ready assets, innovative financial, technical, and contractual solutions and enabling policy and planning.
By scaling proven solutions where enabling conditions are favourable, improving coordination, innovating for harder-to-transition assets, and investing in the policy and institutional foundations in more challenging markets, it is possible to unlock credible, investable pathways for the global coal-to-clean transition.
This technical reports aim to provide evidence-based solutions and lessons learned to identify opportunities to scale the pipeline of coal retirement projects