By Paul Homewood

BEIJING — China has realized its 2020 target for reducing carbon emissions ahead of schedule, the ecology and environment ministry reported Wednesday.

The ministry said China’s CO2 emissions per unit of GDP had fallen last year by 4 percent from a year earlier to stand at 45.8 percent less than in 2005.

Vice Minister Zhao Yingmin told reporters that completed the target of CO2 reduction for 2020 ahead of schedule, while 14.3 percent of the energy China consumes now comes from non-fossil fuel sources.

“These are hard-won results from the efforts of promoting a green and low carbon economy,” Zhao said.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/27/china-says-theyve-already-met-their-2020-climate-goals/

Emissions per unit of GDP are irrelevant. All maturing economies tend to become less energy intensive, as they grow into low energy sectors such as services and consumer goods.

This is why China chose to set themselves such an easy and meaningless target in the first place.

In reality, actual CO2 emissions have risen from 6096 to 9419 Mt, an increase of 55%.

As for the 14.3% of non-fossil fuel energy, most is actually hydro and nuclear. Renewables only contribute 4%, hardly stunning.

I expect Harrabin will be spinning this for all he’s worth, if he has not already!

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November 29, 2019 at 05:10AM