Maracay, Venezuela

At a Glance Britain aims to phase out reliance on coal-generated electricity by 2025.Worldwide, coal accounts for 38% of carbon dioxide emissions. Britain has now gone one week without using any coal to generate electricity, and while that might not sound like much, it's the longest the country has gone without coal power since the world's first coal plant fired up in London 137 years ago. National Grid ESO, which supplies power to England, Scotland and Wales, took coal power...