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Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by mytailorisrich on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @07:58AM (#39440661)
China is adding more renewable capacity than anyone else in the world, dwarfing what's being done in the US and Europe, so much so that forecast is now that their emissions may well peak within the next few years, between 2026 and 2030.

That's quite a feat.

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Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by itsoktocry on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:01AM (#39441355)
>their emissions may well peak within the next few years, between 2026 and 2030.

That's quite a hypothetical feat that will not actually happen.

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Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by mytailorisrich on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:14AM (#39441540)
It's not hypothetical at all. This is the consensus across the board based on the huge growth in clean energy over there.

The anti-China stance that this topic reeks of is not useful and only aimed at diverting from our own issues. Let's install as much low emission energy/renewable as they do then we can criticise.

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