Coal consumption causes at least €360 billion ($465 billion, around Rs23.3 trillion) worth of damage a year to human health and the environment, by warming the planet and increasing the risk of respiratory illnesses, says CE Delft, an environmental consultant based in the Netherlands. Maartje Sevenster, the study’s lead author and an environmental consultant at CE Delft, said this should be taken into account when nations plan how to generate electricity. The study was sponsored by environmental interest group Greenpeace. Power plants running on coal and oil produce more heat-trapping pollutants than natural gas, nuclear fuel or river flow. Bloomberg
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