As far as I know, that isn't really true. Isn't coal well under 50% now? I suspect that it would be below 40% by this point and dropping. It isn't really reasonable to expect it to disappear too quickly, though.
That region is consuming more than 7x North American consumption and accounts for 73% of overall consumption. Unfortunately, it’s also the area seeing the least drop as a percentage.
In other words, the rest of the world can completely get rid of coal and the total global coal emissions will still be higher than they were before 2003.
Coal (anthracite) 228.6 Coal (bituminous) 205.7 Coal (lignite) 215.4 Coal (subbituminous) 214.3 Diesel fuel and heating oil 161.3 Gasoline (without ethanol) 157.2 Propane 139.0 Natural gas 117.0
natural gas is a win over coal, but not a big one.
Coal has remained around 29% of global primary energy consumption since 2005 [1]. I don't believe it's dropping.
[1] https://www.worldenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/World... Figure 1, page 4