By Paul Homewood
In April 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Since then, government permits for new coal power plants have soared. According to analysis of Global Energy Monitor data, in the two years before Xi’s pledge, the government approved 127 plants, collectively capable of producing 54 gigawatts of coal power. In the two years after, that number rose to 182 plants, with 131 gigawatts of coal power. In short, China’s new coal power capacity has more than doubled.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/12/china-coal-climate-change-carbon-emissions-pledge-plants-apec/
FP seem genuinely surprised that Xi has “broken” his promises!
For a publication specialising in Foreign Policy, this shows remarkable naivety.
Did they really expect China to meet this or any other promise? Do they really trust either Xi or the CCP?
Most of all, did they really think that China would ever slam the brakes on economic growth, condemn its people to a future of grinding poverty, and trash its economy by relying on intermittent renewables?
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November 15, 2023 at 03:54AM
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