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    CNN Business Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor

    John Defterios is CNN Business' Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor. Based in the network's Abu Dhabi bureau since 2011, his reporting focuses on business stories from developing economies, with a specialty in trade, geo-politics and energy.

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  • In this file photo, a Chinese state owned coal fired power plant is seen near a large floating solar farm project under construction by the Sungrow Power Supply Company on a lake caused by a collapsed and flooded coal mine on June 16, 2017 in Huainan, Anhui province, China.

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    The International Energy Agency says a boom in the use of coal in Asia, particularly China, is outweighing the growth of renewable energy sources. CNN's John Defterios reports.

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