Moving the Goalposts: China sets its own net-zero target year - it's 2060!

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China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, has taken decisive steps to deal with the problem: it has launched a nationwide programme to tackle the issue and then reach the pinnacle, the net-zero goal, by 2060 - 10 years later than the target set by the UN.

Of course, China may come under fire by the environmentalists for the move - changing the goalposts. It, however, is much more realistic than reaching the same end by 2050, set by the UN by 2050; it may still be in the aspirational realm by this date.

The IEA, International Energy Agency, meanwhile, said in its latest report that there is a 13% decline in the additions of renewable electricity in 2020 compared with 2019, the first downward trend since 2000.

It implies that there will not be enough electricity to meet the demand by 2030 - something Elon Musk feared a few months ago.

Please read and watch this for more:

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by hemanthaa@mail.com
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[Jay McKinsey + 1,489]

7 hours ago, hemanthaa@mail.com said:

 

 

 

China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, has taken decisive steps to deal with the problem: it has launched a nationwide programme to tackle the issue and then reach the pinnacle, the net-zero goal, by 2060 - 10 years later than the target set by the UN.

Of course, China may come under fire by the environmentalists for the move - changing the goalposts. It, however, is much more realistic than reaching the same end by 2050, set by the UN by 2050; it may still be in the aspirational realm by this date.

The IEA, International Energy Agency, meanwhile, said in its latest report that there is a 13% decline in the additions of renewable electricity in 2020 compared with 2019, the first downward trend since 2000.

It implies that there will not be enough electricity to meet the demand by 2030 - something Elon Musk feared a few months ago.

Please read and watch this for more:

 

You guys and your fake news.

China announced the 2060 date years ago.

Your claim on renewable energy is a lie.

Despite the pandemic, the growth rate in the world's renewable energy capacity jumped 45% in 2020, part of "an unprecedented boom" in wind and solar energy, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. It's the largest annual rate of increase since 1999.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/11/995849954/renewable-energy-capacity-jumped-45-worldwide-in-2020-iea-sees-new-normal

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by Jay McKinsey

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Big surprise! Paris Accord is about bankrupting the United States! We should move forward with exactly the same time line if wanting to be equal responsibility of bullshit Climate Change! 

[hemanthaa@mail.com + 64]

More on that:

With a chart like the following at present, even in 2060, achieving global net-zero is unrealistic. 

The 🤥 'fake news' link is from the NHK news channel, the main Japanese news channel.

[Jay McKinsey + 1,489]

13 minutes ago, hemanthaa@mail.com said:

More on that:

With a chart like the following at present, even in 2060, achieving global net-zero is unrealistic. 

The 🤥 'fake news' link is from the NHK news channel, the main Japanese news channel.

And that link goes to an article that makes none of the claims you posted. Here it is:

China starts nationwide CO2 emissions trading

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China has launched a nationwide program to trade carbon emissions, aiming to help the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases reduce its CO2 output to net zero by 2060.

Chinese state-run media says the system started operating on Friday.

The program sets a cap on the amount of CO2 each company can discharge. Businesses with low emissions are allowed to sell their extra allowances to those with large output.

Power companies are among the more than 2,000 large emitters initially subject to the program.
The government says these businesses are responsible for over 4 billion tons of CO2 emissions a year, making China's carbon-trading market the biggest in the world.

A similar trading system has been operating in the European Union, and Japan is also considering implementing a program.

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Here is the IEA quote directly from the IEA report, I call BS on you.

Despite pandemic-induced supply chain challenges and construction delays, renewable capacity additions in 2020 expanded by more than 45% from 2019, and broke another record. An exceptional 90% rise in global wind capacity additions led the expansion. Also underpinning this record growth was the 23% expansion of new solar PV installations to almost 135 GW in 2020.

https://www.iea.org/reports/renewable-energy-market-update-2021/renewable-electricity

Edited July 17, 2021 by Jay McKinsey

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On 7/17/2021 at 12:54 AM, hemanthaa@mail.com said:

China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, has taken decisive steps to deal with the problem: it has launched a nationwide programme to tackle the issue and then reach the pinnacle, the net-zero goal, by 2060 - 10 years later than the target set by the UN.

The article is propaganda - although whether it is green propaganda or Chinese propaganda is an interesting question. As has been discussed several times in this forum at the same time as declaring the net-zero goal China has been binge-building coal power plants, but that binge-building, in turn, has little to do with the country's power requirements. A number of plants are being built with loans from the central government in order to stimulate the economy in certain sectors. There is also the nature of the Chinese political system where each province has to be seen to be building whatever is fashionable. In past years this meant binge building of wind farms (quite a few weren't actually connected to anything), dams (partially a scam), convention centres, whole cities and steel smelters. The carbon trading scheme is also just window dressing. It only covers the power sector (read the story), and my understanding is that the penalties for emitting too much carbon are too light to really affect behaviour. A declaration of net zero costs nothing and, given the size of the Chinese economy and what it does, means nothing. The Chinese will probably achieve their goals under the Paris treaty but that's because they were deliberately set to be achievable without the country doing anything at all.. Pull the other one with this nonsense..