New focus on coal jeopardizes climate targets
China’s wind and solar power saw a spurious growth over the past decade. Recently, China released its 14th Five-year plan for Renewable Energy to determine the action path until 2025. The goals will make a major contribution to China’s targets of a carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. However, since late last year, the government relies heavily again on coal power to fire economic growth and ensure energy security. This renewed focus on coal can undermine China’s climate change endeavors going forward.
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