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> China's CO2 emissions have continued to increase rapidly along with renewables China's emissions fell 2.7% this year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45
by triceratops 1y ago
> China's CO2 emissions have continued to increase rapidly along with renewables
China's emissions fell 2.7% this year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292 Not per-capita emissions, total emissions.
- graeme 1y agoI'd love for CO2 to be peaking, but the comments on that link suggest this is a single month's measurement and that month is not representative as there was a policy cutoff for end of the month that frontloaded solar investments.
- triceratops 1y agoIt's for 2025 up to May, and not just for a single month. Fair point about front loaded investments that may have moved the numbers. Nevertheless it's a positive sign.
- defrost 1y agoCO2 emissions haven't yet peaked but global coal use has, all countries have significantly dropped their coal usage with the exception of India and China. Per annum total global coal use has peaked and is projected to fall from this year forward. China's use is becoming "better" (closing many small dirty old coal power stations, opening fewer but larger and more efficient less polluting new ones) while having a set long term plan to phase out coal while using it now to power a transition to renewables (wind turbines and solar panels don't make themselves yet, nor do they yet power their own production).