China plans to build more coal-fired power plants and has hinted that it will rethink its timetable to slash emissions, in a significant blow to the UK’s ambitions for securing a global agreement on phasing out coal at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
In a statement after a meeting of Beijing’s National Energy Commission, the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, stressed the importance of regular energy supply, after swathes of the country were plunged into darkness by rolling blackouts that hit factories and homes.
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It’s so incredibly disingenuous to talk about emissions in China without mentioning the fact that a lot of these emissions are driven by consumption in the west. Simply moving factories to China doesn’t move responsibility. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter where things get produced, the focus needs to be on curbing demand. It’s also worth noting that China is already under 2000 watt limit per capita right now.
The source that you’re referring to is from 2008. Another source mentions almost 3000 watt per capita in 2014 and I imagine that it has increased since.
Fair enough, but that’s still a third of per capita usage in US despite producing most of the goods consumed in US and other western countries.
