As carbon emissions surge, can China and Japan quit the coal? Lucy Craft © Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Coal Fired Power Plant in Jiayuguan
Tokyo This week the White House hosts a two-day Earth Day summit. Forty world leaders have been invited to the virtual event, during which Washington is expected to announce plans for further significant cuts in its carbon emissions.
But as an international organization warns that some nations reliance on coal to power their economies back from pandemic lockdowns is driving the second-largest spike in carbon emissions ever, it will take more than one country s resolve to address the problem.
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