{"id":137477,"date":"2025-02-13T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/chinas-2024-coal-projects-threaten-climate-goals-report\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:05:20","slug":"chinas-2024-coal-projects-threaten-climate-goals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/chinas-2024-coal-projects-threaten-climate-goals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 2024 coal projects threaten climate goals: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137477\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>China last year began construction on projects with the greatest combined coal power capacity since 2015, jeopardising the country\u2019s goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030, according to a report published Thursday. The world\u2019s second-largest economy is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change, but also a renewable energy powerhouse. It plans to reach net zero by 2060.<\/p>\n<p>While coal has been a pivotal energy source in China for decades, explosive growth in wind and solar installations in recent years has raised hopes that the country can wean itself off the dirty fossil fuel. But according to a report from the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM) in the United States, China began construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal power projects in 2024 \u2014 93 percent of the global total.<\/p>\n<p>Although the country also added a record 356 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity \u2014 4.5 times the European Union\u2019s additions \u2014 the uptick in coal power risks solidifying its role in China\u2019s energy mix, the report said. \u201cChina\u2019s rapid expansion of renewable energy has the potential to reshape its power system, but this opportunity is being undermined by the simultaneous large-scale expansion of coal power,\u201d said Qi Qin, lead author of the report and China analyst at CREA.<\/p>\n<p>The rise comes despite a pledge by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2021 to \u201cstrictly control\u201d coal power projects and increases in coal consumption before \u201cphasing it down\u201d between 2026 and 2030. Coal production has risen steadily in recent years, from 3.9 billion tons in 2020 to 4.8 billion tons in 2024. \u201cWithout urgent policy shifts, China risks reinforcing a pattern of energy addition rather than transition, limiting the full potential of its clean energy boom,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>New permits for coal power projects fell 83 percent in the first half of 2024, prompting optimism that China\u2019s clean energy transition was gathering pace. In November, a survey of experts by CREA and the Australian think tank International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) found 52 percent thought China\u2019s coal consumption would peak in 2025. But coal power surged in the latter months of 2024, despite the country adding enough power from clean energy sources to cover its growth in electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>That suggested coal power was being prioritised over renewable sources in some regions, the report said. \u201cChinese coal power and mining companies are sponsoring and building new coal plants beyond what is needed,\u201d said Christine Shearer, research analyst at GEM. \u201cThe continued pursuit of coal is crowding out the country\u2019s use of lower-cost clean energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is due to announce details of its 15th Five-Year Plan \u2014 for 2026 to 2030 \u2014 in the coming months, likely including updated emissions and energy goals.This month it was also due to submit new emissions targets, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), under the 2015 Paris Agreement. So far only a handful of countries have submitted new NDCs. In October, CREA urged China to set a \u201cstrong but achievable\u201d target of slashing emissions by at least 30 percent by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/chinas-2024-coal-projects-threaten-climate-goals-report\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/chinas-2024-coal-projects-threaten-climate-goals-report\/\">China\u2019s 2024 coal projects threaten climate goals: report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[758,6470,955,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-climate-goals","tag-coal","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}