Coal policies diverge inside and outside of G-7

G-7 leaders last weekend committed to stop funding new coal-fired power plants abroad by the end of the year. But they did not name an end-date for burning coal domestically, as the UN and International Energy Agency have both called for. In fact, G-7 countries still subsidize coal to the tune of nearly $5 billion a year. As coal policies domestically and internationally diverge for the world’s richest countries, it’s seen by developing countries as another case of climate inequity. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports on why politics and energy policies in the US and Japan are preventing the world’s richest countries from sending a powerful signal about the future of energy.