Coal-fired plants and factories bellow noxious fumes into the air, a grim reminder that the town in the Atacama Desert is among the country's five so-called "sacrifice zones," where residents live engulfed
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Although climate analysts welcome the long-term target, they are worried that allowing emissions to continue to climb over the next ten years would exhaust the global carbon budget. If China struggles on emissions, the rest of the planet will fail on containing serious climate change, Matthew Gray, co-chief executive of TransitionZero, said. However, the stars are starting to converge in China s favor in terms of cracking its coal addiction.
The discovery that replacing coal with green energy could save China money in the short and long term raises the possibility of a decisive shift away from coal in the coming years.