HONG KONG With the Chinese mainland steadily growing economy, Hong Kong will gradually regain its economic growth momentum as the Hong Kong Special Administr
meanwhile, china say they will hit peak emissions in the same year. as the united states tries to shade and bend the curve reasonably dramatically, china will still be going up. there are experts who say they could do it sooner if they want, to but that s the rub here. you have democracies that are hugely messy and difficult to get things done who are struggling to meet these promises. you have one-party governments like china, because of a power crunch there, has tripled their coal capacity in recent years. so it could be argued that the fate of life as we know it is in the hands of joe manchin and president xi of china largely. but the whole l of the 30,000 delegates, presidents, prime ministers, even corporations hoping to put a green face on themselves these days is we have to. humanity has no choice but to learn from the unintended
its energy mix coming from nonfossil fuel sources by 2030 and then increase this number to 80% by 2060. but when you look at current pictures on the ground, including i come from this very smoggy beijing today, one reminder. 60% of the energy consumption is still from coal. projects rely on coal. we ve been relying on the power crunch. they ve ordered coal mines to produce as much coal as possible. very much trying to strike a balance between ensuring energy security and cutting carbon emissions. all of this is why there are growing questions and skepticism about whether or not the world s biggest polluter, as i mentioned, can achieve its very lofty goals. steven jiang from beijing,