Coal is on the way out, as this report from three NGOs explains:
Unfortunately this isn't the case. 2018 was the forth highest year of coal production, and China restarted work on the 'cancelled' coal power plants. China is going to increase coal usage by 25%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45640706
And as the following scientific paper published in Nature this January indicates, the current fossil fuel infrastructure does not yet commit us to more than 1.5 C warming.
There is a boom of LNG infrastructure with 1.3 Trillion dollars in production.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/02/c_138192647.htm"Exceeding 1.5 °C occurs in only 9% of ensemble members under a zero emissions commitment if emissions cease at the end of 2018. Even if current fossil fuel infrastructure is retired at end of its lifetime and not replaced, it is possible to limit warming to 1.5 °C"
Neither of their scenarios relate to the real world, both from the increase in LNG and coal production and the record breaking production of shale oil in the US.
By Robert F. ServiceJul. 11, 2019 , 1:40 PM
Local commitments to switch to 100% renewables are also propelling the rush toward grid-scale batteries. By Jacobson's count, 54 countries and eight U.S. states have required a transition to 100% renewable electricity. In 2010, California passed a mandate that the state's utilities install electricity storage equivalent to 2% of their peak electricity demand by 2024.
Natural gas has being taking over a lot of the US capacity, its going to be a good long while before renewable energy replaces it. This is new infrastructure.
"EIA expects the share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018 to 38% in 2019 and then decline slightly in 2020. EIA forecasts that the share of U.S. generation from coal will average 24% in 2019 and 23% in 2020, down from 27% in 2018. The forecast nuclear share of U.S. generation falls from 20% in 2019 to 19% in 2020, reflecting the retirement of reactors at five nuclear plants in 2019 and 2020. Hydropower averages a 7% share of total U.S. generation in the forecast for 2019 and 2020, similar to 2018. Wind, solar, and other nonhydropower renewables together provided 10% of U.S. total utility-scale generation in 2018. EIA expects they will provide 11% in 2019 and 13% in 2020."
Global emissions will continue to grow as more infrastructure is built out. 2018 had the highest ever emissions from energy related sources, the easy fix for emissions targets. That doesn't include the increase in petroleum usage in transportation and the increased pace of devastation of rain forest.
from the IEA
https://www.iea.org/geco/emissions/"Global energy-related CO2 emissions grew 1.7% in 2018 to reach a historic high of 33.1 Gt CO2. It was the highest rate of growth since 2013, and 70% higher than the average increase since 2010. Last year's growth of 560 Mt was equivalent to the total emissions from international aviation"
and see
https://www.carbonbrief.org/unep-limiting-warming-to-1-5c-requires-fivefold-increase-in-climate-commitments"Coal consumption grew by 1.4% in 2018, the fastest growth since 2013. This reverses a three-year period where coal either grew very little or actually declined, though global coal use still remains below its 2013 peak (see below for more)."
"Natural gas represented the single largest contributor to global energy-use growth in 2018, increasing by 5.3% compared to 2017. It alone was responsible for 40% of the increase in total energy use."
"Oil consumption grew by 1.5% in 2018, with China and the US contributing around 85% of the growth in oil use. This growth was primarily concentrated in the transportation sector, reflecting increased vehicle ownership and miles driven."
With the current governments in the US and Russia, Brazil. India isn't stopping production of coal plant infrastructure, 1.5°C is simply a pipe dream. We have to be cutting emissions, not increasing them, and renewable has simply no chance of keeping up the need for energy over the next decade, let alone starting to replace it.