In this article from Carbon Brief, Swithin Lui – China lead at Climate Action Tracker and climate policy analyst at NewClimate Institute – assesses China’s progress towards its climate targets and the implications for global efforts to tackle climate change. Analysing the data in detail, he finds that China is on track to significantly overachieve … Continue reading Why China is set to significantly overachieve its 2030 climate goals
One forecaster says that China might reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 0% from today’s levels by 2030, significantly overachieving compared to its goal of continuing to increase them until then.
At once very impressive and so completely inadequate as to be almost entirely useless. This is the pace we’re going at when we haven’t even got near the difficult part that will come when the low-hanging fruit is gone.
One forecaster says that China might reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 0% from today’s levels by 2030, significantly overachieving compared to its goal of continuing to increase them until then.
Which would unironically be very impressive, though we’ll see if they manage.
At once very impressive and so completely inadequate as to be almost entirely useless. This is the pace we’re going at when we haven’t even got near the difficult part that will come when the low-hanging fruit is gone.