Politics
China’s Race to Net Zero Emissions Gets Off to a Slow Start
- New 5-year plan sets disappointingly modest emission goals
- Climate groups say faster action needed to meet Paris targets
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China’s first road map to achieving net zero emissions by 2060 may be too slow to stop the world’s biggest polluter from hastening global warming.
Thousands of Chinese delegates applauded when Premier Li Keqiang stood in the Great Hall in Beijing at the start of the National Party Congress on Friday and said the country will act strongly on climate change. The country’s 14th five-year plan, released later that morning, was awash with ways to increase the use of renewable energy by 2025.