Carbon emissions in China have decreased for the first time in many years, but the reasons for the decline are troubling.
Carbon dioxide emissions in China are on track for their first annual decline since 2016, a signal the world’s top polluter may have already hit a peak in its output of greenhouse gases,reports. Coal use for power generation plunged last month, while oil consumption contracted in the second quarter as renewable energy output and adoption of electric vehicles increased. Both of those factors increased expectations that the nation’s emissions will contract this year.
based on official figures and commercial data, reinforces the view that China’s emissions could have peaked in 2023. The key findings from the analysis include: Electric vehicles now make up about 10% of all the vehicles on China’s roads, paring around 3.5 percentage points off the growth in petrol demand.
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