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COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.

but now the E.U. is beset by internal problems. Its primary industrial economy, Germany, is suffering from Chinese competition, and with the rise of right-wing parties, resistance has emerged to the ambitious climate policies of the European Commission. One symptom of these internal troubles was the E.U.’s embarrassing failure to agree its own mitigation targets before the informal deadline of September 30.

The United States, meanwhile, is trying to force its partner countries to buy more U.S. oil and gas.

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[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

We could all hope that China would lead the world in climate change as the country is the world's biggest polluter (with coal consumption still on the rise as I wrote just in another thread).

However, China's is far away of any leadership when it comes to reduce carbon emission.

The scientists from the Climate Actions Tracker call China's recent announcement to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 as 'disappointing' as China - given the country's size and economy - would need to cut emissions by around 30% for the world to be on track to the Paris goal.

According to the scientists, no country is on track to Paris, but while the EU and Brazil's climate actions are insufficient, China and India's are considered highly insufficient.

So it doesn't look like leadership.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That's the amazing thing about China, you blink and your info is out of date. China's emissions have peaked and are going down now. Way before the promised 2035 deadline from your post. China under promised and over delivered. Let me guess, your response will start at but at what cost?

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/environment/ahead-of-cop30-china-shows-the-way-co-emissions-flatten-for-18-months-renewables-surge

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Have you read the comment you are responding to?

Nowhere does it state China keeps increasing CO2 emissions. It states China's own target goals are insufficient.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that's what I responded to. China is now surpassing their goals. It did take them a while to start actually decreasing, but they're doing it now. But if you look back even a few years ago, they were missing it. I'm not saying the information the OP posted is wrong. Only, it's now changed so rapidly they're going to hit their targets even though as he points out, they missed it in the period of 2020 - 2025.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China's emissions have peaked and are going down now. Way before the promised 2035 deadline from your post.

The 2035 deadline is not for the emission peak. It's for the 7 - 10% emission reduction from the current peak. The difference between 7% and 30% is very much significant.

Plus how has information changed?? The article linked is from 5 days ago. Nowhere is the period from 2020 to 2025 mentioned, neither in this comment nor in the article.

Are you an LLM? Because your reading comprehension sure is no different than one.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's a quote from the article.

China is also on track to miss its 2020–25 goal of cutting carbon intensity

I mean if your not even going to read the article, I'm not going to respond any further.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's your article. I was talking about the articles OP linked which do not contain this phrase anywhere.

I'm not about to discuss an article that is completely irrelevant for OP's point.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I see, so your argument now is new evidence is pointless. Therefore information from thousands of years ago is true regardless of new info. I guess gravity is f=ma and the theory of relativity is pretend because it doesn't fit your timeline.

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