Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 days agoMoving away from coal would mean China is shutting down coal power plants. Instead they are building even more of them. They started construction on 94.5GW. The USA has 196.2GW of coal power plants total. You do not build them, if you do not plan to use them. So China is going to burn more coal in the coming years increasing their emissions.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What do you suggest? Deindustrialization?
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Stop burning more fossil fuels as quickly as possible. The most important start is to stop adding more fossil fuel infrastructure like coal power plants.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So China should just eat the sacrifice entirely, or is the rest of the world going to join in? Because looking at this chart, it seems China is the only country actually attempting to address it.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
In 2023 global emissions only grew due to China. They would have fallen by 54million tonnes of CO2, if you exclude China.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Europe and US CO2 emissions are dropping. The charts are in the comments here. China’s are skyrocketing, as are India’s.