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Essay by Eric Worrall
Don’t forget the money…
The world needs climate change leadership – it’s time for China to step up
Published: April 29, 2025 10.26pm AEST
Yixian Sun
Associate Professor in International Development, University of BathThe second Trump administration has announced various anti-climate policies under its “America first” strategy. Leaving the Paris agreement, kicking off a trade war, shutting down USAid and drilling for more oil and gas will not only undermine the US’s international reputation but will undermine the global effort to combat climate change.
With the US in retreat from climate action and Europe preoccupied by security challenges, new leadership is urgently needed. China may be poised to fill this gap.
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But more than 60% of the electricity generated in the country still comes from coal, and it remains unclear how fast the government plans to phase out fossil fuels. Meanwhile, some provincial governments are still issuing permits to add new coal-fired power plants.
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China was one of the many countries that missed a February deadline for submitting its targets (only 15 countries were on time). Until now, Beijing’s strategy has been to “wait and see” given the turbulence caused by the new Trump administration.
…China should also play a major role in reforming the global financial system to make it aligned with the Paris agreement. As a strong supporter of green finance, it can influence upcoming international talks such as the Financing for Development conference in Seville, as well as the UN’s negotiations on international tax cooperation. As co-chair of the G20’s sustainable finance working group, China also has the opportunity to push for more funding to support net zero.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-climate-change-leadership-its-time-for-china-to-step-up-252698
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The activists might have quite a wait for China to provide more money. China is sitting on a stagflation and banking / government liquidity crisis which makes the 2007-8 GFC look like a mild hiccup. Toxic debt is weighing down all sectors of the Chinese economy, but every time Beijing tries to pump in a little stimulus, inflation surges and threatens to destroy what is left of their economy. On top of this, Trump’s new tariffs are likely going to crush China’s export sector, one of the few remaining healthy sectors of the Chinese economy.
I’m not sure how handing loads of money to foreign activist scientists and poor country tyrants who play the climate pauper game figures in China’s list of priorities, but I’m guessing its not at the top of their list.
My guess is that encouraging us in the west to destroy our economies by pursuing insane net-zero policies is actually very close to the top of their list.
Don’t forget their investment in producing the solar panels that are the warmunist’s fetish objects.
Destroying our economy and dividing our society has been ongoing since the end of WWII.
Upon reflection, I think the last thing China would want is for Western nations to experience economic difficulties that would hinder their ability to buy its exports. Those exports appear to be supporting the rest of China’s economy.
What’s the goal of Communist countries?
To be the ones in “The Farm House”.
(Animal Farm reference.)
They want power.
Ji’s response to an invitation from the West to help with Net Zero –
“Sure round-eyes. First, drop your pants, turn around, bend over. Also it’s b.y.o. Vaseline”
Was going to comment but you’ve said it
These People (used loosely) just don’t have a clue. China doesn’t care about “The Climate”, China only cares about China and their ability to produce and sell CHEAP (not affordable) goods to the rest of the world. “Climate” is just their in road To gain acclaim and foist low quality on the rest of the world. If China really cared about things they would manufacture High Quality and use their own “Climate Saving Devices” instead of installing emissive generation sources. If China cared they would be steadily reducing emissions instead of increasing year over year
Further, China has demonstrated that it is really really good at phasing out people, fossil fuels quite the opposite.
China demonstrated it’s intent in 2024 by approving 66.7GW of new coal fired capacity and commencing construction on 94.5Gw equivalent to 93% of new coal construction globally.
They also restarted 3-3GW of suspended projects
China has a manifesto to take over the world.
Belt and Road.
They do indeed. It’s a book by Michael Pillsbury. “The Hundred-Year Marathon”. subtitled, “China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower”.
Their hundred year epoch will arrive on October 1, 2049 and on that day I will also turn 100. 🙂
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Hopefully you will still be breathing on that date!
What exactly is an “anti-climate policy” anyway?
In years past, it would amount to not dancing and banging drums, not tossing virgins into volcanoes and not burning witches at the stake.
“The Cause” has not changed, but the methods sure have. Still, no results obtained by using any method as “fighting climate change” has been a complete and total failure by all accounting for over 40 years.
You forgot about throwing soup at famous paintings. It’s very effective against global warming (/sarc).
Believing any promises or statistics from the PRC is idiocy. The CCP is quite willing to sell bai zuo solar panels and windmills produced by Uighur slave labor, but not rely on them in their own economy.
The Chinese have a major overbuilding of
speculative housing with very few people being able to afford to buy. There are also loans to government controlled entities that make the US sovereign debt look manageable.
So I doubt the Chinese will finance Western folly on climate change.
65 million empty properties in 50 ghost cities
Mad Ed Miliband – powered by China.
Miliband travels to China for new start
Britain to reset relationship with China on climate change as well as low carbon technology
https://www.energylivenews.com/2025/03/14/miliband-travels-to-china-for-new-start/
Miliband is a good example of someone who lives in a False Reality.
He thinks China’s leaders care about CO2, even though China is building coal-fired power plants as fast as they can.
Net Zero is on its last legs. Miliband won’t revive it in China, although I’m sure China will be happy to sell Miliband all the windmills and solar panels he wants. China will not be your Net Zero savior.
Net Zero is dead, Ed! You are flogging a dead horse.
He has been both to China and India and come back and implied when he returned that they ‘agreed’ with him about net zero. A quick look at what China and India are doing in relation to fossil fuels would tell any reasonable person that is not the case but Ed is very gullible and also on “a mission”.
“As co-chair of the G20’s sustainable finance working group, China also has the opportunity to push for more funding to support net zero.”
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Funding support for net zero from China when it keeps building more and more coal-fired power plants? Seriously? ROFLMAO.
“it remains unclear how fast the government plans to phase out fossil fuels”
I believe it is perfectly clear.
China has very effectively used the AGW agenda as a tool to have the west surrender all its high-carbon manufacturing to them. So I’m sure China will be happy to help these tools in their continuing quest to roll back the 20th century.
First, I do not trust China.
Second, China already has its belts and roads initiative.
Third, China enjoys the status of a developing nation such that it is exempt from all the climate nonsense.
China can thank Obama for that. That was the only way Obama could get China to sign on to the Paris Climate Agreement, so he let them off the hook as far as CO2 reductions, so China was in, under those circumstances, and why not, China gets to look responsible while doing nothing to reduce CO2.
China couldn’t ask for a better deal than that.
We have had some really dumb Democrat American presidents in the recent past. Dumb on one hand, and conniving on the other. What a combination!
If memory serves, China also is eligible for climate compensation as a developing nation.
The United States was giving China money in the past for climate change issues.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were still being paid. Maybe DOGE will uncover the details.
Any port in a climate storm, eh?
The Climate Alarmist activists are running out of places to run to.
They won’t get any climate change satisfaction in China.
Climate Alarmists don’t understand the situation. They still think it is possible to reduce CO2 production in today’s world.
They still think, erroneously, that it is necessary to reduce CO2 production.
Spain and Portugal, Ed.
China could also play a major role in …. the breeding of flying pigs.
Story tip: all over the shop
Tony Blair U-turns on net zero criticism and insists Labour approach ‘is the right one’
a dramatic U-turn following his attack on the government’s net zero policies as the row threatened to derail Labour’s plans.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-net-zero-starmer-labour-b2742260.html
Oh dear.
Some things never change, like not even mentioning the forced labor camps in western China making 60 percent of the world’s polysilicon ingot supply chain with coal power. Such looking the other way (by the UN and most everyone else) or discounting veiled information worked just as well in the 1930s in eastern Europe. That’s also how you get to official CCP statements on the origin of COVID19 coming from imported frozen seafood.
It looks like Covid19 got its start around October 2019. I remember a story about how the Chinese military in Wuhan had gone on lockdown in November of 2019, and there are claims that American service members came down with an unknown virus in October of 2019 while attending events in China.
Trump stopped air traffic from China in January 2020, and air traffic from Europe soon after.
It would have been nice to have had a three-month jump on the disease. Fewer people would have died as a result. China should have notified the public about the disease. And what was done with the American military personnel who got sick at that time?
And Trump was decried as xenophobic for shutting down air traffic.
Per Biden.
Yes, he was. Accusing Republicans of Racism is Standard Operating Procedure for the Democrats.
One thing of note: When Trump shut all air traffic down from China, he was in a room with about 25 advisors, including Anthony Fauci, and everyone of them voted against stopping the air traffic, but Trump went ahead and stopped it anyway.
That’s called Leadership.
Trump stopped air traffic from Italy and other European nations not long afterwards. My State of Oklahoma got its first case of Covid 19 from a tourist who had been visiting Italy and had flown back to Oklahoma the day before the travel ban was put on by Trump.
“…it remains unclear how fast the government plans to phase out fossil fuels.”
Ba-hahahahahahahaha!
China will phase out fossil fuels when it is good and ready to, maybe in a hundred years, maybe two. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, it will always be “soon”.
“Ba-hahahahahahahaha!”
Me, too! 🙂
These Climate Alarmists are living in a Dream World of their own making.
China will sensibly phase out hydrocarbon and coal fuels when the world supplies start declining.
It is a limited resource. How limited is not quite known.
The blind leading the blind.
Cool! Now they can be charged as Undeclared Foreign Agents.
Climate activists look to China to give them leadership? Well, if emitting fossil fueled CO2 is causing dangerous global warming as they claim, then China is most definitely leading the way. Why would they turn for leadership, to the world’s biggest emitter who has stated its intent to continue increasing emissions???
Because they are deluded.
That, too.
“Why would they turn for leadership, to the world’s biggest emitter who has stated its intent to continue increasing emissions???”
It just shows how desperate they are. They turn to the biggest CO2 producer in the world for solace.
They are not turning to China for leadership unless the definition of leadership is financial aid on a massive, global scale. Belt and roads is going to get a major boost from this.
Things are looking up.
The flip side of this is China selling stuff into Australia at cost price to get foreign income to pay for iron ore, coal, bauxite and other Australian sourced minerals.
Lithium batteries from China are now down to the price point where converting an Australian house to solar/battery is lower cost than using grid power. Even Aldi are retailing batteries for under AUD200/kWh.
Most, if not all BEVs from China have reduced price in AUD this year.
Australia does not have any manufacturing to protect so no need for tariffs on Chinese goods.
Sounds like you discovered the perpetual motion, teflon economy.
“China may be poised to fill this gap.”
China will be happy to
fill that gaprule the world, after all, it’s The Middle Kingdom.Give us a break
China is one of the major poulters (if you believe their science) and will be till after 2060
China is also the biggest producer of CO2 in the world.
Activist are looking for China for leadership … ROFL
Well maybe but probably not the type the activist are thinking.
It is a comedy.
The CCP loves the climate activists, because they help sell solar panels made in China, using rare-earth minerals that are plentiful in China.
China: Solar panels for you, coal for us!!!
China plus Congo/Africa and Indonesia and S. America and probably other places.
Red China loves to make money from the climate scam.