After Donald Trump’s Pro-Petrolias and Fossil energies the previous day, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the world on Wednesday, September 24 that the future belonged to renewable energy, revealing the first objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2035.
When intervening in a video message in a special mini Sumito of the UN in New York, Xi Jinping has committed to the fact that China reduces its net greenhouse gas emissions from 7 to 10% by 2035, compared to its peak that could intervene this year, “making all efforts to do better.”
Until now, he had committed only to a peak before 2030, and carbon neutrality in 2060. The Middle Kingdom is, with much, the largest greenhouse gases transmitter on the planet. The figure is much less ambitious than 30% that experts consider it necessary to curb global warming, but the statement demonstrates Beijing’s attachment to climate multilateralism.
Xi Jinping has promised “multiply by six the capacity of wind and solar energy compared to the level of 2020, striving to take the total of 3,600 gigawatts.” By 2030, plan to install solar panels in their deserts that can produce triple the total electrical capacity of France. During the first six months of the year, he installed twice the solar capabilities as the total of other countries in the world, while continuing to build coal power plants.
“This pragmatic approach reflects a long tradition of predictable political elections,” said AFP Li Shuo, an expert from the Institute of Policy of Asia Society. The European Union arrives late to its own road map, and the United States, the Second World pollutant, will withdraw from the Paris Agreement that carries all the current climate diplomacy.
The words contrast with those of Donald Trump, who, the day before the UN, ridiculed the science of the climate, calling him “greater scam ever led against the world.”
“The frequency and intensity of hurricanes is real, not a hoax, not a scam,” said Philip Davis, prime minister of the Bahamas, regularly dragged by the winds on Wednesday.
China advances
The reactions of experts and NGOs to the new Chinese objective are in the fact that it is “too shy”, in the words of Juan Manuel Santos, former Colombian president and president of the group of “wise” (“the elders”), gathering several ex-international personalities. But most of them, even among activists, say they expect China to continue accelerating, and feel comforted by the promotion of renewable energy by President XI.
The goal must be seen “as a floor and not as a roof,” says one of the best experts in Chinese programs, Lauri Myllyvirta, of the Crea reflection center. According to him, at the current growth rate of renewable energies, objective 2035 will be widely exceeded. “The announcement is a clear sign that the global economy of the future will walk with clean energy,” praised the UN climate head, Simon Stiell.
Source: BFM TV
