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Xi Attends White House Climate Summit Where Coal Is On The Menu - China Digital Times (CDT)


Xi Attends White House Climate Summit Where Coal Is On The Menu
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Apr 23, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping virtually attended a White House climate summit, fueling hopes that Joe Biden’s policy of “extreme competition” will propel both countries to combat the climate crisis. Before the summit, Biden climate envoy John Kerry travelled to China. “We talked a lot about coal,” Kerry told the press. At The New York Times, Somini Sengupta wrote about
Coal is the lightning rod of climate diplomacy this year, as countries scramble to rebuild their economies after the coronavirus pandemic while at the same time, stave off the risks of a warming planet. The Biden administration has leaned on its allies Japan and Korea to stop financing coal use abroad. And it has repeatedly called out China for its soaring coal use. China is by far the largest consumer of coal, and is still building coal-fired power plants at home and abroad. ....

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Green China: Where authoritarianism and environmentalism meet


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In this Nov. 28, 2019, photo, a solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China s Shanxi Province.
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China is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. But it s also at the forefront of renewable energy innovation and has some of the world s largest conservation projects.
Beijing is trying to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2060. That means contributing no additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Yifei Li is an environmental researcher at New York University Shanghai and a co-author of the recent book, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, with environmental policy researcher Judith Shapiro. He speaks to The World s host Marco Werman about the downfalls of authoritarian environmentalism, and why the people and the environment win when the Chinese government opens up to collaborations with local people. ....

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