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Has China stated this in an official communication somewhere?

• defrost 3y ago
  At 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...