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This year, let’s keep 10 million tonnes of British coal in the ground

‘Keep fossil fuels in the ground’ was the soundbite of climate campaigners in 2015. This year, it’s time to put that into practice in the UK.

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The government professes its enthusiasm for the Paris climate agreement – the aim of which, to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, requires us to leave over 80% of all fossil fuel reserves untouched. Yet David Cameron’s administration is still going all out to frack for shale gas and, astonishingly, it’s still allowing millions of tonnes of coal to be dug up from massive opencast coal mines.