Komarov lotus flowers bloom on Lake Karasinoye near the Artyomovskaya thermal power station in Primorye Territory, Russia on July 29, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun, Monday, February 1, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo/File)





Smoke rises from a coal-powered steel plant at Hehal village near Ranchi, in eastern state of Jharkhand, Sunday, September 26, 2021. No country will see energy needs grow faster in coming decades than India, and even under the most optimistic projections part of that demand will have to be met with dirty coal power – a key source of heat-trapping carbon emissions. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





In this June 23, 2020 file photo he sun rises behind power poles in Frankfurt, Germany. Electricity demand in the European Union has returned to pre-pandemic levels without a corresponding rise in power sector emissions, according to a report published Wednesday by the energy think tank Ember. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo/File)





Steam rises from cooling towers of the Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power plant in Belleville-sur-Loire, France on October 12, 2021. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





In this January 6, 2020, file photo wind turbines stand on a hill and are surrounded by fog and clouds in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany. Officials from around the globe begin three weeks of grueling online climate talks organized by the U.N. climate office in Bonn, Germany. The talks will involve grappling with a number of thorny climate and political issues, without the benefit of face-to-face meetings, due to pandemic restrictions. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo/File)





The new photovoltaic park of the company Enerparc is officially starting into operation in Gaarz, Germany, Monday, May 31, 2021. The photovoltaic park will produce electricity for German railway company Deutsche Bahn. (Photo by Jens Buettner/dpa via AP Photo)





A bucket wheel excavator is mining coal at the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Monday, October 25, 2021. An analysis of the incoming German government's climate plans has concluded that they aren't sufficient to put the country on course to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris accord. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo/File)





A view of the solar tower of Israel's Ashalim power station, a solar power station in the Negev desert near the kibbutz of Ashalim, on June 8, 2021. The 240-meter tower is part of a 121-megawatt solar thermal power plant which concentrates the sun's heat from thousands of small mirrors onto a boiler mounted on the tower, the latter producing high-temperature steam used to generate electricity. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





A shepherd watches the flock graze on a pasture near by coal-fired power plant “Kosova B” in the town of Obilic, Kosovo, 18 October 2021 (issued 04 November 2021). Installed since the 1950s, the main energy systems in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro are based on coal, an abundant raw material in the region. While the EU intensifies the decarbonization of its electricity generation, the non-EU Balkan countries continue to rely on coal, polluting more than the rest of Europe as a whole, with devastating effects on the local population. (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/EPA/EFE)





Steam comes out of the chimneys of the coal-fired power station Neurath near the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Monday, October 25, 2021. The climate change conference COP26 will start next Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Steam comes out of the chimneys of the coal-fired power station Neurath near the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Monday, October 25, 2021. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A view of the Kumtor gold mine, in Kumtor 350 kilometers east of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, May 28, 2021. The investigation centers on the Kumtor gold mine, which has long been a controversial operation in Kyrgyzstan because of alleged environmental violations and strong sentiment that the government should nationalize it. In early May, the parliament passed a law allowing the state to take control of the mine for three months from its Canada-based operator Centerra and a court levied a $3 billion fine for environmental claims. (Photo by Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo)





The steaming coal-fired power plant Datteln 4 is reflected in the water of the Dortmund-Ems-Canal in Datteln, Germany, 02 November 2021. The production of carbon-based energy is one of the main sources of environmental pollution worldwide and the black coal consuming plant was controversial already before launched in May 2020. Germany, a coal extracting country, is striving to abolish coal and nuclear power and to convert to renewable energies, one of the main topics of the COP26. (Photo by Friedemann Vogel/EPA/EFE)





In this aerial view - A general view of the Wyangala Dam as it spills after reaching 104% capacity on November 15, 2021 in Wyangala, Australia. Residents in Forbes and around Central West NSW are preparing to evacuate as floodwaters inundate the region following heavy rains across the state. The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting possible major flooding at Forbes from Tuesday. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)