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China's coal plants are a temporary measure until they can get enough renewables built because they don't want to lose all the global manufacturing they do. The
by timbit42 3y ago
China's coal plants are a temporary measure until they can get enough renewables built because they don't want to lose all the global manufacturing they do. They will shut them down as soon as they can. China knows it has a lot to lose from global warming since they have so many heavily populated cities built on the coast.
- shrubble 3y agoHas China stated this in an official communication somewhere?
- defrost 3y agoAt Cop26 in Glasgow, in 2021. There, at that conference, China pledged CO2 emissions would peak by 2030. Xi said that China would “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects”. Since then the country's been plagued by power shortages and has been building coal fired stations as a stop gap. Coal and China is complicated - in the past two decades China has closed down a very large number of quite old and quite polluting coal stations that had high emmissions. In that time they've built a few nuclear stations, a lot of solar and hydro, and a number of larger more efficient coal stations that run cleaner. So, they're still building coal, they've improved the situation wrt pollution from coal, they're committed to ending coal, that's not going to be easy. China’s coal addiction puts spotlight on its climate ambitions before Cop28 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/china-coal-addiction-spotlight-climate-ambitions-cop28 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/china-coal-add...