, keeping global temperature rises “well below” 2 degrees Celsius this century, preferably 1.5 degrees.according to the Climate Action TrackerInstead, it says, Beijing’s policies are consistent with a 3-degree world, meaning sea-level rises, more extreme weather and possible mass starvation as swaths of the planet become inhospitable for crops and even human life itself.
It’s fitting for this land of juxtaposition that China has both accomplished a vast amount on climate change while simultaneously not promising enough for the future. Gone are the days of China dismissing international pleas to curb spiraling emissions, its delegates wrecking previous climate summits by insisting wealthy countries shoulder the responsibility.stop funding coal projects abroad
But quitting coal will be brutal for a country powered 60 percent by the black stuff. One estimate by Beijing’s Tsinghua University said its net-zero goal would cost an incomprehensible $46 trillion., keeping the lights on for 1.4 billion people, and powering the cement and steel industries that forge its infrastructure-based economy..
Fallout from the crunch is a major worry ahead of COP26. Experts fear that the realpolitik of keeping the lights on means there’s less chance than ever of Beijing quitting coal in time. Indeed, Beijing has ordered all coal mines to operate at full capacity ahead of winter Beijing’s defenders say that while the United States may boast more ambitious climate promises, its governments are more focused on the short term and less likely to succeed than the dynastic vision set out by China’s technocratic one-party state.
How much of that crap they make is consumed by the rest of the world? You can't just blame them for the pollution, when we go to them for cheap products.
Does anyone believe that China will change anything because of 'global' pressure. Ha!!
Wow they jumped ahead of the U.S. didn’t think it possible
So we shut down our own access to fuel for climate and China is doing what and India to help this? We already gave them most of our mfg and good paying jobs and sit now per ships sitting idle and no products on the shelves so now what Puppet Pres?How much did you and Hunter make?
Boycott China
Nothing is lost Testimony is on the way
So AOC wants us to go broke to get them richer. Imagine that coming from communists.
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