Rising wind and solar power generation means the emissions could peak this decade and start to decline. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - A resurgent economy pushed China’s carbon dioxide emissions to a record high for the first three months of the year and this is on track to reach an all-time high for the whole of 2023, an analysis published on Friday shows.
and the government is accelerating spending on wind and solar, as well as nuclear, to meet China’s growing electricity needs. “If the 160GW target is met, the additional capacity would generate enough to cover a 3 per cent increase in China’s electricity demand,” Crea analysts Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin said in the report, which is based on official figures and commercial data.
In 2021, China’s CO2 emissions rose to nearly 12 billion tonnes, accounting for 33 per cent of the global total for that year, the International Energy Agency said. China’s emissions were relatively flat in 2022, declining by 0.2 per cent, it added.The analysts said that beyond 2023, “a continued rapid expansion of low-carbon energy could enable emissions to peak and enter into a structural decline, once the post-Covid recovery has played out”.
China remains heavily reliant on coal for power, despite huge spending programmes to expand hydropower, nuclear energy, and wind and solar.
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