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Xi is pushing climate, study shows

Enabling climate acceleration are economic sectors such as land use, China coal, Saudi Aramco, Coal India, Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil — in that order.
Since 2021, China coal sends more carbon in the air than NATO equities and Arab states combined. The China coal sector is increasing capacity and is delivering 12.7 GtCOe in 2024.

The #GreenhouseForcing results are published at: http://data.yt/projections/2024-results.html @climate

#coal #oilAndGas #energy #carbon #CO2

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[-] br3d@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world's stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China's because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don't fall for the tenor of this article, because it's probably intended to distract you ("Why should I bother when China is really bad?") and keep you consuming

[-] naeap@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but the energy for manufacturing comes from a just large percentage of coal power plants and it seems they even want to build new ones.

So yes, they are the world's factory and it's unfair to just blame them for building stuff for us. But how they do it needs to be criticised

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