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Clean coal : green and lean

With the economic benefits of emissions offsets, clean coal is poised to move from a government-subsidised to a commercially viable industry, as Catherine Lacoursière reports

The place of coal in a low-carbon world is still being debated. With 1,000 billion tons of global coal reserves and hundreds of coal-powered plants being developed around the globe, "King Coal" is not expected to be knocked off its perch as the world's lowest-cost power supply in the coming decades.

Yet clean coal technology – coal with low or zero pollutant emissions – has not proven to be cost

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