It is great that the Global Reporting Initiative is helping more companies to report on their social and environmental performance, but it would be better if more analysts and investors used this information.

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The Deloitte analysts addressed pollution only in passing, but some environmental groups oppose exports on the grounds that they will increase pollution at home and abroad.

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Long-term, policy analysts say, coal's comeback will inevitably fall foul of EU environmental policy, which calls for a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels by 2020 and a growing role for solar, wind and biomass in electricity generation.

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