China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe.
The world’s second-biggest economy is also the biggest source of carbon dioxide by far, and its decisions on how far and how fast to shift to a low-carbon model will determine whether the world can stay within relatively safe temperature bounds.
China’s plans are to cut emissions by between 7% and 10% of their peak by 2035 – a long way from the 30% cut that experts said was feasible and necessary.
Xi Jinping, the president of China, made the announcement at a summit of world leaders to discuss the climate crisis at the UN general assembly on Wednesday afternoon in New York.
I’ve read on Reuters that China is probably under promising and they will do better than they claim. At least China understands that climate change is real and is trying to do something about it. Unlike some other country. The bar is on the floor, yet some countries are struggling.
Yeah. I hope China is doing more than they promise, because USA refuse to do their part.
How much does the second worse contributor to global warming contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gasses? Oh, they don’t, they believe that the scientific fact of global warming is a hoax…
Speaking as a “proud” American, we are not second worse. We are worst overall. We’re number one! WERE NUMBER ONE!
I don’t think slowing climate change is the motivation… More like to reduce dependence on fossil and become a leader in renewable techs.
Word is run according to flow of money and it’s glaced in bullshit and empty promises.
Green tech is just not financially cutting it, so we are gonna drive this capitalistic mud ball of the cliff and blame everyone else.
I do hope China gets Fusion first.
The US isn’t even in the running afaik.
Last I heard it was China and France running neck and neck.
Regardless, I don’t think anyone expected fusion soon enough to help with the climate crisis. Hopefully it will be there to continue to grow our society for the future, but we have to have human contribution to climate change effectively solved more quickly than we could get fusion.
Maybe it will help us stay in the green for the century or two it takes the climate to recover, assuming we haven’t passed any tipping points
Tbf here in France i hear experts saying that it will be a slow process and it may be viable between 2050 and 2100, so it won’t be of help to reduce emissions right now
