Respecting the Paris agreement, which aims to limit global warming to 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era, implies achieving carbon neutrality (balance between greenhouse gas emissions and this that natural environments and capture techniques can trap) by the middle of the century.
The world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has a vital role to play in this transition.
In 2020, its President Xi Jinping assured that his country would achieve carbon neutrality “before 2060”.
China, however, is far from the mark and continues to overinvest in dirty energies: approvals of new coal-fired power plants quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 compared to the years 2016-2020.
At the heart of this challenge, electricity production: it represents more than half of China's CO₂ emissions and still depends more than 60% on coal.
In a study published this week in the journal
Proceedings…
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