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VAGUE LANGUAGE FROM CHINA: The U.S. and China have set a tone for cooperating on climate change this decade, but Beijing is still holding off on delivering concrete near-term pledges ahead of President
Joe Biden’s big summit event later this week.
The world’s two largest emitters issued a broad but vague statement this past weekend after climate envoy
John Kerry’s last gasp China trip to meet with his counterpart
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CHINA’S BIG COAL CHALLENGE: China needs to cut in half its carbon emissions from its coal plants by 2030 in order to achieve its pledge of becoming carbon neutral by 2060, according to new research this morning.
To halve its emissions from coal China must shut, retrofit, or put into reserve 364 gigawatts of coal within 10 years, around a third of its current total,
according to London-based climate data provider TransitionZero.
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THE SITUATION FACING KERRY: Climate envoy John Kerry is
struggling to lock down new commitments from China and India ahead of the Biden administration s summit of global leaders from top emitting countries on Earth Day.
It’s not surprising that China, the world’s top emitter by far, and India, the third biggest emitter, aren’t rushing to announce a new emissions reductions pledge for 2030 months before November’s United Nations meeting in Glasgow, where countries are expected to enshrine tougher targets to the Paris Agreement.
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