China’s Emissions Are Plummeting — and Fast. What Is Going On?
Arguably the most important climate story in the world right now is the question of what’s going on in China. A recent analysis by Greenpeace found that China’s carbon dioxide emissions have plummeted nearly 5 percent, year over year, in the first four months of 2015:
http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/05/14/china-coal-consumption-drops-further-carbon-emissions-set-to-fall-by-equivalent-of-uk-total-in-one-year/That’s … unexpected. Ever since 2000, China’s annual emissions have been rising at a relentless pace, as the country has rocketed itself out of poverty, burning billions and billions of tons of coal for electricity and industry. And China’s official plan was for annual emissions to keep rising until 2030 or so. Given that China is the world’
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