A record surge of clean energy kept China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions below the previous...

emissions down in last 10 months of 2024. Very likely that trailing 12 months are down too (not covered in article, but something they will pick up)

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caOP
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    8 days ago

    emissions is a function of how much coal plants are used. Plan is likely backup power. OP reports less coal electricity use in 2024. More solar will reduce it more. Europe has declined fossil electricity by over 10% this year. China’s growth is just extremely high, but they too will have large declines soon.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Ok but right now in terms of putting actual runs on the board America is doing better than China, the inflation reduction act was also gold

      I’ve noticed that shitting on America seems to be acceptable but shitting on China for their obscene co2 emissions comes with caveats like: the plan is likely… in the future it should… soon there will be…

      Meanwhile the US and EU:

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caOP
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        8 days ago

        Your graph will make China look better when it includes 2024. The only thing you can control on energy mix is growth rate. Adding more fast enough. You should go easy on praise for US, as Ukraine war is both a massive emission increase, and scramble for new “good oil” supply developments, and deprioritization of global sustainability. The IRA, while better than nothing, is a scheme to protect monopoly profits using “climate change as a profitability/relevance economic engine” for the US market, and the solar/battery/EV tariffs designed to make actual progress as slow as possible.

        • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I’m not heaping praise on the US they’re doing ok, I’m asking why there’s so much praise for China, it’s getting a hell of a lot of praise for emissions reductions that are yet to show even a blip on any chart

          The IRA, while better than nothing,

          First of all “better than nothing” are you joking? now I have to wonder if you are a chinese bot or a partisan hack.

          Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed a landmark $391 billion climate solutions investment bill — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This once-in-a-generation legislation has supercharged the process of replacing our deadly fossil fuel economy with clean energy while investing in critical air monitoring technologies, pollution reduction programs, environmental justice priorities, and efficient permitting processes.

          https://earthjustice.org/article/the-biggest-climate-spending-bill-ever-just-turned-two-heres-what-it-has-achieved

          It was so massive Europe got worried it was going to take all their green tech companies away

          PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe needed an urgent response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to ensure a future for its industry and welcomed the mandate given to the European Commission to come up with a plan early next year.

          So yeah it’s a little bit better than nothing, it was super massive.

          And what is this?

          is a scheme to protect monopoly profits using “climate change as a profitability/relevance economic engine” for the US market, and the solar/battery/EV tariffs designed to make actual progress as slow as possible.

          A majority of emissions come from energy:

          China is building coal power plants at record rates while the west closes them down and you’re unhappy that the US and EU are trying to get some manufacturing back? or even retain what little they’ve still got left?

          Just to confirm: you’re unhappy countries with a lower co2 output are trying to manufacture goods?

          a scheme to protect monopoly profits

          what monopoly lol, china has the monopoly on green tech for like a decade now