'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
In short:
China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear.
While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China may meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month, according to a report.
What's next?
Energy experts are looking to China, the world's largest emitter and once a climate villain, for lessons on how to rapidly decarbonise.
What's not mentioned is that China's overall climate goals are much further out than what the rest of the world signed to with the Paris accords. So hitting their own internals goals doesn't actually mean much, since they are still aggressively polluting and plan on polluting later.
China still accounts for the majority of the world's raw emissions.
True but also kind of a silly point as we've outsourced all of our production there. Let them do the dirty work and point the finger it feels to me.