• Adlach@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    It really is uplifting to see a government meet (and so hugely surpass) their climate goals. Living in America, you'd think it was impossible from the way businesses/politicians talk.

    • Rom [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Hell, half of American politicians refuse to acknowledge climate change even exists.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    You mean a country has a problem and they just....fix it? Unheard of in the west.

  • xerazal@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    China is also the largest consumer of coal... So kinda negates that, doesn't it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      China has an actual concrete plan for transition off fossil fuels. Initial stages still require coal to produce power to build out the infrastructure. A study in the second link found that China's use of coal is perfectly in line with the plan in the first link.

      • https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
      • https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-climate-pledge-is-largely-consistent-with-1-5c-goal-study-finds

      So, kinda doesn't negate that, does it?

      • xerazal@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        This I didn't know, thanks for the info.

        It's good that they have a plan, just hope they can speed it up. If China can transition off coal faster, it'd be a boon for the world.

    • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      it cut all its coal subsidies more than a year ago and has been rapidly transitioning away from it for more than 10 years

      Can I see statistics for such coal consumption currently. I do think China might be a high consumer of coal still due to still being a developing global south country. I do trust them to be rid of it within the decade, though, and I can't say the same about america (saying because its the country I live in)