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>2023 made it very clear that China knows the stakes What happened in 2023? https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/carbon-co2-emissions https://www.m

• davis 3y ago
  You have to burn carbon to build renewable energy components if you don't have enough energy from existing solar + wind; I don't know what you expect. But now they have ~500GW of energy to build next year's >>500GW [1]. It's an investment and every year it pays off. China's emissions peak wasn't supposed to happen this decade but that has been revised [2] 1: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-solar-capacity-expected-hit-1000-gw-by-2026-rystad-energy-2023-09-12/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-solar-capacity-ex... 2: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-peak-before-2030-expert-poll-2023-11-21/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-carbon-emissions-...