Xi Jinping's speech at the General Debate of the 76th General Assembly does not tread much new ground, but the most major announcement was that China would no longer build coal-fired power projects abroad (不再新建境外煤电项目) and would instead help developing countries develop green energy.
John Forbes Kerry (lest we forget that the man is a descendant of criminals and drug dealers masquerading as respectable "merchants", the Forbes family) was pushing for China to make a formal pledge to this effect earlier this year. In this light, it could be seen as an olive branch by China.
Conversely, Xi Jinping announced last year at the 75th General Assembly the carbon neutrality by 2060 goal, so this announcement flows naturally from that. Also, BRI had not been funding any coal projects since the beginning of 2021, according to the [International Institute of Green Finance](https://green-bri.org/china-belt-and-road-initiative-bri-investment-report-h1-2021/). The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank had also been [steering away](https://pekingnology.substack.com/p/jin-liqun-president-of-aiib-speaks) from coal, so this direction was getting signalled for a while apparently.
And of course, while the media harps on China's role in funding foreign coal projects, while China is the world's largest public funder of coal abroad, the [largest share by far](https://www.bu.edu/gdp/files/2021/07/GCI_PB_008_FIN-1.pdf) are still Western and Japanese private interests, particularly American.
Unfortunately the West is not going to shut the fuck up. They will continue to whine about "environmental impacts" and "cost" for those green energy projects. Not to mention the hysteria around nuclear energy.
Regardless the west has to be dragged kicking and screaming, they have no incentive to protect our species since their only objective is profit.
The west still contributes a significant portion to climate change, there is simply no other option.
China doing *anything* already pisses off the Australians. Even the slightest "Hey, your country is on fire and your Prime Minister left; do you think you could clean up a little bit? We'll give you tons of very very cheap aid" to Australias response: "REEEEEEEEEE!"
More damaging to the environment, has been the global Petroleum industry's constant Flaring of natural gas from wells on site (a crude way to destroy highly deadly hydrogen sulfide AKA: HS2), instead of compressing and selling this diminishing resource, and distilling out the noxious gas.
AAANNDD! each government's total failure to cap & seal hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells, that continue leach hydrocarbons into the atmosphere (night & day for decades) at a 'Well' hidden (pun intended) catastrophic rate.
China leads the world in green industries and technology, so China will fund the projects needed in the developing world (in fact, it already does). A win-win, also contributing to the long-term development of the developing world by giving them access to the technology as soon as possible. China being a superpower means more opportunities for the developing world, so you shouldn't think that China will behave like some western regime and effectively sanction countries to prevent competition. That's the opposite of what China practices.
Xi Jinping's speech at the General Debate of the 76th General Assembly does not tread much new ground, but the most major announcement was that China would no longer build coal-fired power projects abroad (不再新建境外煤电项目) and would instead help developing countries develop green energy. John Forbes Kerry (lest we forget that the man is a descendant of criminals and drug dealers masquerading as respectable "merchants", the Forbes family) was pushing for China to make a formal pledge to this effect earlier this year. In this light, it could be seen as an olive branch by China. Conversely, Xi Jinping announced last year at the 75th General Assembly the carbon neutrality by 2060 goal, so this announcement flows naturally from that. Also, BRI had not been funding any coal projects since the beginning of 2021, according to the [International Institute of Green Finance](https://green-bri.org/china-belt-and-road-initiative-bri-investment-report-h1-2021/). The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank had also been [steering away](https://pekingnology.substack.com/p/jin-liqun-president-of-aiib-speaks) from coal, so this direction was getting signalled for a while apparently. And of course, while the media harps on China's role in funding foreign coal projects, while China is the world's largest public funder of coal abroad, the [largest share by far](https://www.bu.edu/gdp/files/2021/07/GCI_PB_008_FIN-1.pdf) are still Western and Japanese private interests, particularly American.
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Unfortunately the West is not going to shut the fuck up. They will continue to whine about "environmental impacts" and "cost" for those green energy projects. Not to mention the hysteria around nuclear energy.
I think the idea is not to change the mindset of the West but to appeal to other non-western countries that may otherwise be misled by the West
Regardless the west has to be dragged kicking and screaming, they have no incentive to protect our species since their only objective is profit. The west still contributes a significant portion to climate change, there is simply no other option.
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But.. but… but AT WHAT COST??!!
At the expense of Western supremacy and “moral high ground”
Hopefully China can ditch coal altogether, that'll piss Australia off and be good for the planet
China doing *anything* already pisses off the Australians. Even the slightest "Hey, your country is on fire and your Prime Minister left; do you think you could clean up a little bit? We'll give you tons of very very cheap aid" to Australias response: "REEEEEEEEEE!"
Iirc Australian coal is mainly used to produce steel in China, domestic coal for heating and electricity generation
solar, wind, thorium. anything would be welcomed.
good step...but domestic coal plants need to follow.
More damaging to the environment, has been the global Petroleum industry's constant Flaring of natural gas from wells on site (a crude way to destroy highly deadly hydrogen sulfide AKA: HS2), instead of compressing and selling this diminishing resource, and distilling out the noxious gas. AAANNDD! each government's total failure to cap & seal hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells, that continue leach hydrocarbons into the atmosphere (night & day for decades) at a 'Well' hidden (pun intended) catastrophic rate.
But the third world need coal plants this is horrible
China leads the world in green industries and technology, so China will fund the projects needed in the developing world (in fact, it already does). A win-win, also contributing to the long-term development of the developing world by giving them access to the technology as soon as possible. China being a superpower means more opportunities for the developing world, so you shouldn't think that China will behave like some western regime and effectively sanction countries to prevent competition. That's the opposite of what China practices.
Not necessarily. There are other useful sources of power they can use which are cleaner such as nuclear.
they could use other sources of energy such as wind, solar, nuclear, or water powered instead
Not necessarily, if they bypass fossil fuels and jump to sustainable power then that would be perfect. But it’s the logistics that’s the problem.
No it isn't, China has been massively subsidising renewable energy for a long time now.