The sweeping new report documenting the world’s changing climate released on 9 August by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put a fresh spotlight on China, a country responsible for more than one-quarter of the world’s annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Climate advocates hope the report will encourage China, which has lagged other big emitters in pledges to reduce CO2 emissions, to take bolder action. Whether it can begin to slash its output significantly in the next 10 years will help determine the magnitude of the global crisis, they say.
But whereas many heads of state called for enhanced climate action following the IPCC report, Chinese leaders have stayed quiet. In a statement to Agence France-Presse, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs simply reiterated China’s existing climate policies and said the world should have faith in its climate actions.
Taking firm action is in not only the planet’s interest, but China’s own. The IPCC report offer
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The Chinese path to supposed decarbonization starts with a lot more coal.
You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” last September schmoozed the royalty of the United Nations with his unexpected pledge that his country aims “to have CO
2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060.”
Xi then urged other nations “to pursue innovative, coordinated, green and open development for all” through rapid deployment of new technologies so as to “achieve a green recovery of the world economy in the post-COVID era and thus create a powerful force driving sustainable development.”