Coal's Vital Role in China
Ecoal, Vol. 74, May 2011
The IEA declared that in 2010 China had passed the USA as the world's largest energy consumer*. Most estimates also project China to overtake the USA as the world's largest economy within the next ten years. As the IEA's 2010 World Energy Outlook report stated, it is hard to over-estimate the role of China in global energy markets.
