China’s estimated total carbon dioxide emissions reached 25 percent of global emissions in 2011 and they continue to grow rapidly so rapidly, in fact, that the increase in China’s emissions over an eight-month period is about the same as the UK’s total emissions in 2011.
What s Europe and China s path to carbon neutrality? As COP26 gets underway we debate net-zero targets, ditching coal, and managing the switch to renewables with experts from east and west.
The stakes are stratospherically high ahead of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP 26, which opens in Glasgow on Sunday.