Recent disasters highlight a pair of challenges testing China’s one-party political system, known for its strong top-down approach.
basin, worsened by Chinese dams and their demand for electricity. The situation is threatening food insecurity from southwestern China into Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.In China, perhaps more so than in other places, there is a clearer link between those weather dangers and the country’s own emissions, said Carter Brandon, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute.
Yet acknowledgments of those connections are rare, though they have been demonstrated. Modeling from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University, two of China’s top institutions, But even as China is on target to double wind and solar power capacity to hit 1,200 gigawatts by 2025, its local governments have approved more than 50 gigawatts of coal power, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, in the first half of 2023,The country has taken pride in its ability to respond to natural threats in the past.
For Liu Junyan, climate project leader for Greenpeace East Asia’s Beijing office, the test of China’s extreme weather response will be how quickly the new flurry of climate research and national risk assessments can be translated into concrete action to improve infrastructure and emergency response systems on a local level.
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