January 2, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The estimated 70,000 people who attended the recent U.N. global climate summit known as COP 28 had barely returned to their countries before a new report arrived on the vibrant state of worldwide coal mine financing, the latest sign that the world is a long way from dethroning King Coal, either for electricity generation or steelmaking.