Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time - Carbon Brief
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For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22189256

The latest data, for the first quarter of 2025, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable or falling for more than a year, as shown in the figure below.

However, with emissions remaining just 1% below the recent peak, it remains possible that they could jump once again to a new record high.

Outside of the power sector, emissions increased 3.5%, with the largest rises in the use of coal in the metals and chemicals industries.

Sector-by-sector analysis suggests that, in addition to the power sector, emissions have likely also peaked in the building materials and steel sectors, as well as oil products consumption.

  • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    I hate China, but at times they do correct shit and because of the structure of the government it’s almost always successful.

    Wish they didn’t have so much human rights violations.

    • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
      113·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know what community to post this in either so I’m just gonna add it here, hexbear and Lemmygrad claim to be communists, claim to not be revisionists, claim to use materialistic dialectics, but have you ever visited their ProleWiki? Shit is full with contradictions, how are you gonna educate socialists when your own encyclopedia can’t even get itself right? Actively denying reality is the opposite of what Marx wrote.