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Originally Posted by Mick
Money grabbing?
So what are China then, being allowed to build pollution busting power plants, while still part of the accord?
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This is what China committed to in the accord by 2030:
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Peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and making best efforts to peak early;
Lowering carbon dioxide intensity (carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP) by 60 to 65 percent from the 2005 level;
Increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent; and
Increasing the forest stock volume by around 4.5 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level.
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China's carbon emissions are falling, have been since 2015 when they started really cutting back on coal usage, and they are leading the world in investment in renewables. They are responsible for 1/3rd of the world's entire investment in them at last figures.
http://fs-unep-centre.org/sites/defa...16lowres_0.pdf
They've recently built the world's largest off-shore solar farm for instance.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/201...-power-target/
Leading them to have broken their 2020 target for solar generation, set in 2016, this year. They now have twice the solar capacity of the United States.