As most of the coal units are loss - making out to 2030, the total stranded value in the B2DS is negative — meaning the EU could avoid $ 22bn in losses by phasing out coal power in line with the Paris Agreement. (carbontracker.org)
A 2016 study by health and environmental organizations found phasing out coal by 2030 would prevent more than a thousand premature deaths and some 870 hospital visits in Canada, while saving nearly $ 5 billion in costs to society, including healthcare expenses and lost productivity. (cleanenergycanada.org)
Analysis of more than 600 power plants by Carbon Tracker, the climate think - tank, estimates that $ 22bn of losses could be avoided by phasing out coal in the EU by the end of the next decade. (carbontracker.org)