China leads the world to transmit clean energy. This is what this looks like

Speak by video At the United Nations climate summit in New York last week, China President Xi Jinping put his country climate Aspirations. Although the declared goals may not be aggressive as some environmental scientists want, at least something confirmed China’s green commitment.

He said: “Although some countries contradict this trend, the international community must remain on the right track, maintain fixed confidence, fixed work, and the unintended efforts.” It was certainly intended by any reference to Donald Trump and the United States (albeit not explicit).

Power transmission march is a long period, but you should start somewhere. With this approach, China has already taken a few steps.

Beijing stands (mostly) alone

Today, there is no race to be the climate leader. The world is far from COP26 conference In November 2021, when dealing with the threat of climate change, it looked like a global priority. A few months later, Russia invaded Ukraine; The energy crisis and enlarged climate were launched from many political business schedules.

While Joe Biden and the United States responded to high prices with Law of reducing inflationWhich gave priority to investment in renewable energy, Donald Trump later Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement– An international agreement to reduce the phenomenon of global warming – for the second time. The European Union has also stumbled: very internally divided, the declaration of the intention at the top of the United Nations climate has not exceeded. There was not much movement from India, a country of about 1.5 billion people. The emissions of other countries are very small.

Looking at this background, it becomes easy to understand how China has become a global leader in this scenario in this scenario. Shi’s speech did not go into many details, but he mentioned all the main points of China’s strategy.

Reducing emissions between 7 percent and 10 percent by 2035

In New York, Xi acknowledged the importance of moving, for the first time, he agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions instead of simply promise to slow them down. China’s declared goal ranges between 7 percent and 10 percent by 2035.

How do you evaluate these pledges? While the commitment is vague, it is still important; Previously, the regime only promised to reach the peak of emissions by 2030, and link the cuts to economic growth. In Shi’s speech, you can see China’s move from a developing country’s approach to a role closer to the role of industrialized countries, whose emissions decreased decades ago.

Slow go?

It should be noted that reducing emissions at the speed that Beijing promised means a decrease of about 1 percent per year. according to analysis Written by William Lamb of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, this is a slower frequency than that of most industrialized countries. Italy, for example, reduced it by an average of 3.2 percent every 12 months since its peak in 2006; UK with an average of 2.8 percent since 2004; France by 2.3 percent.

“China has often promised little and has achieved a lot,” Andreas Seber, Assistant Director of Politics and Campaign for the Universal Universal Climate 350.org, notes that China may be exaggerated. The country’s lack of democracy also means that its policies are not at risk of reflection in every electoral cycle.

On renewable energy sources

The Xi Jinping letter guarantees a commitment to reaching 3600 GW (GW) of the capacity that was installed for wind and solar energy by 2035, that is, six times the country’s numbers for 2020. This is indeed the leading country in terms of renewable energy installed, and giant on the Technology Front as well, where universities outperform environmental and climate research at the utmost speed, and attract scientists from abroad across many From the fields. He also announced a commitment to a mixture of energy with more than 30 percent of renewable energy sources.

On electric cars

Mobility has always been a problem for China, which moved from bicycles, everywhere until the nineties, to comprehensive cars. Innocent Beijing Olympics photos: a blanket of smoky fog buried the city. In recent years, a strong batch of electrical mobility has been granted: at the climate top has announced plans to make EVS “the main current”, that is, prevailing in sales. It helps ready to reach rare Earth minerals, which are essential for building batteries. For this issue, the country hosts giant car companies such as BYD and Catl, which provides batteries for about 50 global brands including Tesla and Volkswagen.

In the carbon market

Xi announced his intention to expand the national carbon emissions trading market to more intense sectors of emissions than today.

On the forests

China has made additional obligations about the forests, which it says will reach 34 billion cubic meters.

China has reshaped the market for green technologies.

To skeptics in expecting broader measures and the mantle of the real global leadership of China, well, this is not a particularly desirable title these days – especially if the United States continues in contrast to the course of climate science. Also notes a senior consultant Bernis Lee from the Chatham House Research Center, China has invested 625 billion dollars in the transfer of clean energy last year alone; This is nearly a third of the GBAL total.

Not only that: The massive research and dependence of renewable technologies led to a significant decrease in prices, and the large local market in China is a huge engine in this regard. “The appearance of Chinese renewable energy sources reshapes the global economy and replaces coal in the local market,” says Li.

Hope is that the other countries, which this commitment reassured, follows the example of China instead of America.