Asia ramps up use of dirty fuels to cover energy shortfall triggered by Iran war

The Guardian's Rebecca Ratcliffe provides well-sourced reporting on Asia's coal expansion with named expert sources (Henning Gloystein at Eurasia Group, Pauline Heinrichs at King's College London, Dinita Setyawati at Ember) and specific government policy examples across multiple countries, lending credibility to the core factual claims. The framing emphasizes coal's environmental harm and includes expert calls for renewable investment, which represents a clear editorial perspective on solutions—appropriate for The Guardian's editorial stance but worth noting as context-setting rather than pure reporting. The article grounds its claims in concrete supply disruptions (LNG through Hormuz, Qatar facility strikes) and quantified impacts (30bn cubic meters removed, 80% affecting Indo-Pacific), though the causal link between the Iran conflict and these supply shocks relies partly on expert interpretation rather than direct documentation of the connection.