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"As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become
increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China
end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants?
China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has
spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152
countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. Roughly
70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding.
That’s a problem for the climate. The International Energy Agency warns in a
new analysis that if the world hopes to reach net zero emissions by 2050,
widely seen as necessary to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, there
should be no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects or in new coal-fired
power plants that don’t capture their carbon emissions. Shortly after that
report came out, the G7 group of leading industrialized democracies called for
an end to international financing of unabated coal projects on May 21, 2021."
Cheres,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
