China has doubled down on refusing to stick to its climate pledges by announcing Monday it will be expanding operations of coal-fired power plants across the country.
In a Chinese State Council meeting chaired by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, China reaffirmed its position to increase its use of coal-powered energy to “safeguard power usage in both production and daily life”, the official Chinese state press agency Xinhua reports.
China is the world’s largest polluter, emitting an estimated 27 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases in 2019, with the next largest emitter America only releasing 11 percent of the world’s pollution – less than 50 percent of China’s total emissions.
Despite initially signing up to the U.N.’s Paris Climate Agreement in 2016 which aims to keep global temperature rises under 2°C and reaffirming this commitment to reduce its emissions at eco-conference COP26 in a joint declaration with the United States in 2021, over the course of the pandemic, China has increased coal output – hitting a ten-year-high of using over four billion metric tons of coal in 2021.
This increased use of coal indicates China is unlikely to honor its international promises to peak its emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.
The communist nation’s energy U-turn comes after the Chinese economy was inhibited in the coronavirus pandemic as a result of international fuel shortages, which led to multiple power outages in the nation of 1.4 billion people.
The Chinese Communist dictatorship has since ordered the reopening of domestic coal mines and also the scrapping of emission-curbing production quotas, meaning China’s coal power plants will be operating at full capacity.
While Western populations are being forced to tighten their belts and deal with the expensive ramifications of green-energy policies, Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his government that any efforts to reduce China’s emissions should not interfere with the nation’s economic growth – indicating China will not be making any meaningful changes to curb its emissions in the near future.
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No doubt about it, the future is China. Confucius is better than religious fanaticism; we spent FIVE centuries climbing out of it, only to have our home-grown set try to get back. Xie xie.
Good for China and USA should do the same. The entire man made global warming / climate change or whatever is a hoax and we are all paying for it. It is just one tentacle of the globalist octopus for stripping society of any wealth so that they can control the masses.
Look who is putting out the Smoke its the Dragon not the Eagle