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China's carbon emissions are still growing and even by their own forecasts won't stop for at least another ten years. I think it's premature to take them at the
by ghostcluster 6y ago
China's carbon emissions are still growing and even by their own forecasts won't stop for at least another ten years. I think it's premature to take them at their word when they've been so publicly dishonest in other arenas.
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- sudosysgen 6y agoThis data is obsolete : https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/ https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/ Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese emissions have taken a dive and will recover over a multi-year period, over which other projects to minimize emissions will come online. As a result, independent projections show that Chinese emissions will probably stay at more or less their current level, maybe a bit more, and start decreasing by 2030. This data could, of course, be dishonest, but as a result there has been a lot of interest in third party data on Chinese economic activity, which is used to provide high-reliability estimates of CO2, based on which they do seem to be on track for this.