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FIGARO DEMAIN -China is the source of a third of global CO2 emissions, almost three times more than the United States. The peak of releases is not expected until 2030.
This year again, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, should be one of the absentees noticed at COP27, the United Nations conference on climate change. A distance that illustrates China’s ambivalence as it officially aims for carbon neutrality «avant 2060» and a peak in emissions «avant 2030».
A few days before the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, the report of the 20e Communist Party Congress explained that China was going “work actively and carefully to achieve peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality”. A very measured step forward that does not prevent Beijing from highlighting its achievements. “In the last decade, China has been responsible for 30% to 50% of energy saving, renewable energy development, green transport in the world”, Wang Wenbin, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on October 28. For his part, Li Gao, director of the fight against climate change…
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