Greenpeace says it shows "the UK's efforts to tackle climate change are working" but the country is "still very much dependent on expensive and polluting gas".
China is by far the world’s largest installer of renewables. They are outpacing the rest of the world combined.
They are also the largest installer of dirty power like coal/oil. Ideally, and it sure looks like it from their recrbt power investments, they view coal/etc as stop gaps.
Their emissions per capita are skyrocketing, but their emissions per gdp and emissions per kwh are going down. The country is still developing, so it’s energy demand is going up. At least it doesn’t have large fossil fuel reserves, so pushes them towards renewables.
China is by far the world’s largest installer of renewables. They are outpacing the rest of the world combined.
They are also the largest installer of dirty power like coal/oil. Ideally, and it sure looks like it from their recrbt power investments, they view coal/etc as stop gaps.
Their emissions per capita are skyrocketing, but their emissions per gdp and emissions per kwh are going down. The country is still developing, so it’s energy demand is going up. At least it doesn’t have large fossil fuel reserves, so pushes them towards renewables.
That last part isn’t true, unfortunately. China extracts more coal than the rest of the world’s top ten producers combined
Hmm yeah looks like China is number 2 in coal reserves behind the US. Is it in a more inaccessible part of the country?
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves
I believe it’s concentrated in the north, close to Beijing but far from many of the other large cities