BEIJING: US envoy John Kerry will visit China this week for climate change talks - the first official trip under the Biden administration - in a trip Washington hopes will put aside diplomatic spats and focus on joint environment challenges.
China launched a carbon trading system in February aimed at driving down emissions - though critics have said it lacks teeth.In 2020 China opened three-quarters of the world's newly funded coal power plants, according to CarbonBrief, and accounted for more than 80 per cent of newly announced coal power projects.In 2019, China's greenhouse gas emissions were an estimated 13.92 billion tonnes, twice as much as the United States.
China's new five-year national development plan, unveiled in March, set a target of generating just 20 per cent of energy from non-fossil fuels by 2025.314 MILLION CO2 TONNES ABROAD Boston University's Global Development Policy Center has said fossil fuel power plants with Chinese overseas investment were leading to about 314 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.LEADER IN NEW WIND POWER
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