Public attention to extreme weather adds urgency to President Xi's promises that China, the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, will be able to transition to a carbon neutral economy faster than any other nation.
a multi-department effort to draw up a national climate change adaptation strategy set to be finalized by 2035. But experts worry about persistent gaps in early warning systems.
Luo added that the problem is not just with the science of prediction but also with governance. “There are problems with the response to extreme weather because of the level of communication between departments, which causes catastrophic losses,” he said.
For state planners, even a huge build-out of wind and solar power — China plans to install about the equivalent of the United States’ entire current capacity this year — will be unable to keep pace with energy demand in the near term. The top leadership has consistently reiterated in recent months that coal is, for now, the “mainstay” of the country’s power generation and will remain so for the near future.
After 2025, coal should be phased down, transitioning from a “mainstay” to “supporting” power source, meaning that new power stations fueled by coal should only be built to ensure stability of the power grid, but many new projects approved in recent months fail to meet those criteria, CREAWhen it comes to climate action, the Chinese Communist Party leadership faces a series of unattractive trade-offs.
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