Clouds of smoke over Europe's largest lignite power plant in Belchatow, central Poland, on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. A group of Greenpeace environment activists have climbed its 180-meter smokestack to spur participants in next week's global climate summit in Poland into taking decisions on limiting the use of coal. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)





Steam rises from the brown coal-fired power plant Neurath (front-C) and Niederaussem (rear-L) operated by RWE in Bergheim, 04 December 2018. The Rhenish Brown Coal Field is Europe's largest carbon dioxide source. According to a report by the UN, the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have gone up for the first time in four years. The report came just days ahead of the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Poland from 02 to 14 December 2018. (Photo by Sascha Steinbach/EPA/EFE)





Central Palo Seco power station of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is seen behind a cemetery, in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 22, 2018. (Photo by Alvin Baez/Reuters)





An aerial view of excavators in Hambach open-cast mine near the western German town of Kerpen-Buir west of Cologne, Germany, October 6, 2018. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)





Flames are visible at the scene of a major explosion and fire at the Irving oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on October 8, 2018. (Photo by Michael Hawkins/Reuters)





Smoke and steam billow from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, at night near Belchatow, Poland on November 28, 2018. (Photo by Kacper Pempel/Reuters)





Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, near Belchatow, Poland on November 28, 2018. (Photo by Kacper Pempel/Reuters)





A participant rides a horse during a traditional hunting contest, involving tamed golden eagles and hawks, with smoke rising from chimneys seen in the background, in Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 1, 2018. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





In this photo taken on Wednesday, February 8, 2017, a view of the dismissed steelworks plant Falck, in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy. Lombardy is Italy's most productive region with an annual GDP of 337 billion euros, making it Europe's second most productive region. And yet the landscape is dotted with ghosts of industries past. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)





The sun rises over the coal- fired power station in Hanover, Germany, 22 August 2017. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/DPA/Bildfunk)





Water vapour billows from smokestacks at the incineration plant of Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, France at sunrise, France, December 8, 2016. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)





A “supermoon” sets behind the U.S. - Mexico border fence during its closest orbit to the Earth since 1948 on November 14, 2016 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Guillermo Arias/AFP Photo)





Trees and two of the four chimneys at German car maker Volkswagen's plant are illuminated on the second Advent on December 6, 2016 in Wolfsburg. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/AFP Photo/DPA)





An aerial general view taken on April 30, 2017 shows the opening ceremony venue for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Ticket sales in South Korea for the Winter Olympics it is hosting next year have gone far worse than hoped, organisers admitted on May 8, with barely a quarter of the first-phase target taken up. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





Kayford mountain, West Virginia, US. Mountaintop removal mining operations work around the clock at amazing speed; this lonely stand of trees disappeared in barely a day. The small bulldozer on the upper level pushes loose material down to the loader, which scoops it up into the next earth mover in line, which will in turn dump it into a nearby “valley fill”, burying the stream there. (Photo by J. Henry Fair/Industrial Scars/Papadakis Publisher)





Genreal view of electricity pylons and power lines leading from the Uniper coal power plant in Hanau, Germany, early morning November 23, 2016. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)





The former SSI Steel making plant on February 6, 2017 in Redcar, United Kingdom. The SSI steel making plant at Redcar was mothballed in 2015, which impacted heavily on the local economy, struggling after the loss of around 3000 jobs, from both the site and the supply chain. The borough of Redcar and Cleveland voted to leave the European Union by 66.2%. Much of the North East of the United Kingdon voted to leave the European Union including Sunderland, Gateshead, Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar and Cleveland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, and Northumberland. Newcastle was the only borough to vote to remain, though by a narrow margin, which was likely due to its large student population and dependency on EU funding. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





A coal-burning power plant steams in Gelsenkirchen, Germany while the 23rd UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate talks end in Bonn, Germany, Friday, November 17, 2017. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Wednesday, October 3, 2018, a bird flies past as smoke emits from the chimneys of Serbia's main coal-fired power station near Kostolac, Serbia. The COP 24 UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Katowice, Poland. Negotiators from around the world are meeting for talks on curbing climate change. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)