The hope is that other countries, reassured by that commitment, will follow China’s example rather than America’s.
I feel like this is more propaganda than anything real. Last time I read about this, the scale was the number of patents for “green energy” and china was clearly ahead but particularly on batteries… I dont consider EV to be what will save mankind from the he’ll we are creating
Population collapse due to 20 years of local officials lying about births and school registrations out of fear of not meeting President Xi’s targets means far fewer consumers and less pollution
Population collapse due to 20 years of local officials lying about births and school registrations
Hadn’t even considered that scope yet. But sure, as population numbers drop so will the environmental footprint.
Population plummet over the next 30-40 years
Literally nothing can stop it the population is much older than anyone realized just 5 years ago
Cool story
Meanwhile China is cutting the green budgets and people forget to talk about that because it’s more fun to use climate action as a political weapon.
Isn’t it because most of their renewable energy sources are produced by themselves, and is cheap as fuck compared to build a new coal plant. Easier to quickly scale solar and wind, rather than building burning plants? = no need of any labelled and beaurocratic “green budgets” Anymore. Because renewables already IS the prefered energy source. (because of price per MwH)
Good China is committing, maybe check this other article for another contextual framing.
The pace of emissions reduction (about 1% per year) is slower than that of most industrialized nations, and some analysts argue that China’s targets are conditional on favorable economic and technological conditions
