Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
AUGUST 24, 2021
By Paul Homewood
And still they build more:
China is planning to build 43 new coal-fired power plants and 18 new blast furnaces — equivalent to adding about 1.5% to its current annual emissions — according to a new report. The new projects were announced in the first half of this year despite the world’s largest polluter pledging to bring its emissions to a peak before 2030, and to make the country carbon neutral by 2060.
The news shows that at least some in China are prioritizing economic growth over emissions reductions — although some analysts say they are still optimistic that China will reach its climate targets. “There is this desire in the Chinese political and economic system to keep on building, to continue the infrastructure fever,” says Li Shuo, a senior global policy adviser for Greenpeace in Beijing.
The report on China’s new coal plants was written by the Helsinki-based research organization the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the U.S. group Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and released on Aug. 13. It came just days after the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published an alarming report that concluded human-caused climate change is an “unequivocal” reality. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the IPCC report a “code red for humanity.”
China is leading the world in new coal power plants, building more than three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined in 2020. It isn’t alone in its reliance on coal, however. China and four other countries, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam, account for more than 80% of the coal power stations planned across the world, according to a June report by the think-tank Carbon Tracker.
But it’s not all bad news. China has pledged to reduce its energy intensity — measured by comparing total energy consumed to GDP — and its carbon intensity — the carbon-dioxide produced per dollar of GDP — by 2025. Chinese President Xi Jinping said in April the country will also reduce coal use beginning in 2026.
Despite the development of coal power plants, China is a renewable energy leader,accounting for about 50% of the world’s growth in renewable energy capacity in 2020
https://time.com/6090732/china-coal-power-plants-emissions/?mc_cid=4013cbbc49&mc_eid=870a48a53b
The gullible greens still try to convince themselves that China really is going to cut emissions eventually. They cling on to the pledge of reducing energy and carbon intensity, but they really ought to realise that this is a meaningless promise, as all maturing economies do this as they expand into consumer goods and services. This does not mean though that energy consumption will actually decline, simply that the economy will grow faster than energy use does.
Then there is the nonsense about China being the world’s leader in renewable energy. Naturally, given the size of their economy, everything thing they do is big. But the sad reality is that wind and solar power still only contributed a paltry 4% of China’s energy last year.
As for Xi’s “promises”, we might recall that Senile Joe actually believed the Taliban.
The report reckons that these new coal plants and blast furnaces will add 150 million tonnes to China’s CO2 emissions. This is roughly half the UK’s total emissions.
Anyone believing that MSM control by the Globalist cabal is conspiracy theory needs to look at what’s happening. Any CO2 savings are simply added to China’s output while continually increasing. Where’s the outrage or even questioning?
Well, it is just China now.
China commissioned 38.4 GW1 of new coal plants in 2020, making up over 75% of the global total (50.3 GW). Outside China, less than 12 GW was commissioned and, taking into account closures, the global coal fleet outside China declined by 17.2 GW in 2020. Outside China, there was a marked slowdown in 2020 commissioning. India, notably, grew its coal fleet by only net 0.7 GW in 2020, after adding an average 15.0 GW a year from 2010 to 2019. There have been cancellations of future coal power across the globe: Bangladesh, Japan, S Korea and Vietnam in particular. Spain close 47% of its coal capacity last year. German started its coal close programme…
Will China change? I don’t know. It sometimes makes the right noises, it makes public international committments (and hates to be shown as not having met these).
What the central committee dictates, regions seem free to change.
It is experiencing climate impacts, not least floods: historically Chinese leadership has been deposed or had to change for failing to cope with flood events.
Will the rest of the world make it change?
But the rest of us doing nothing is not an option, not least because if we don’t China says ‘well you aren’t doing anything’.
and coal outside China is certainly on the way out, even Chinese funded schemes outside China.
just watched a video put out by ccp featuring their booming coal mining industry . they seemed quite proud
Hmmm, 2020, eh? I don’t know, seems to me that year is important for some reason…
ProTip: It a mainland Chinese lips are moving – they are LYING.
I think they will increase the number some time after COP26.
China’s boycott of Australian coal has been good for India — Quartz (qz.com)
John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate, is reportedly looking to push China to issue a moratorium on financing coal projects during a trip to the country next week.
This is great news! I hope they build even more coal-fired power plants. It just goes to show that fossil fuels are essential to economic development and wealth creation. Not a single economy on the planet has been built, nor sustained, on wind and solar.
So-called renewables will never replace fossil fuels.
Read the book that explains why
The moral case for fossil fuels