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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China would step up its efforts to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and fulfil its pledge to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
“You can depend on China to maintain its promise,” Xi, who was addressing the 12th BRICS summit via video link, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
China, which produces 29% of global emissions, is investing in renewables while also building hundreds of new, carbon-intensive coal plants and eyeing energy-intensive infrastructure projects to help accelerate its post-COVID-19 economic recovery.
“Global warming won’t cease as a consequence of COVID-19. To sort out local weather change, we must not ever chill out our efforts,” Xi said, adding that China would continue to redouble its efforts to respond to climate change.
Xi first said China would achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 in speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September, when he also urged all countries to pursue a “inexperienced restoration” of the world financial system within the post-COVID period.
A former US local weather negotiator, Andrew Light, stated China’s announcement was aimed toward setting the agenda and getting forward of stress from former vice chairman Joe Biden if he grew to become president. Biden, now-president elect, has promised to set a US objective for net-zero emissions by 2050.
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