Factories set up in the Hainan Industrial Park in the Chinese city of Wu Hai, just one example: industrial production and development but at what cost.
Four-fold increase in coal consumption
Between 1990 and 2015, China's annual coal consumption nearly quadrupled and the People's Republic of China still generates 60 percent of its electricity from coal.Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that China's emissions of toxic gases will reach their peak by 2030.This means that China's emissions of such hostile carbon dioxide will continue to rise sharply for many more years to come.
According to President Xi Jinping, in the next three decades, by 2060.China will be "carbon neutral" in terms of the environment.
Amazing Carbon Brief Statistics
By 2020, three-quarters of all new coal-fired power plants around the world will be operational in China.According to the Carbon Brief, an organization that monitors toxic carbon emissions, more than 80 percent of all new coal-fired power plants around the world have been announced so far.Most will be set up in China.
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The Volume of Carbon Emissions Tripled
In 2019, China's growing economy and ever-increasing energy needs released about 14 billion tons of toxic greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.That's about twice the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by the United States, the world's largest economy.
Between 2000 and 2018, China's emissions of toxic carbon dioxide almost tripled.The emission of these gases is directly related to the rising temperature of the earth.China alone is currently responsible for about one-third of the world's carbon emissions.
New Five Year Development Plan
The new five-year national development plan, presented by the Beijing government in March this year.Aims to ensure that the People's Republic of China derives only 20 percent of its energy production from non-conventional and renewable sources by 2025.Will do But the Beijing government has not set clear goals for how long.How much and how much it will increase the country's wind, solar and hydropower generation.
High ground temperatures, millions of people affected by extreme heat
China itself is being affected by this massive pollution: a view of the Chinese city of Shanghai, which has been severely affected by air pollution.
Indirect contribution to carbon emissions from other countries.
According to data from the Center for Global Development Policy at Boston University in the United States.China's foreign investment has led to the construction of a number of power plants that are traditional for power generation Use fossil fuels.These power plants also emit 314 million tons of carbon dioxide gas annually.This rate is about 3.5% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions from energy production outside China.
Leading the World in The Production of Hydropower
China is also the world's largest producer of hydroelectric power.
According to the International Hydropower Association, China alone generates more than half of the world's electricity generated by building dams on waterways.
According to environmentalists, so many dams also affect the natural environment and aquatic life.
According to China's National Energy Administration, the new hydropower plants installed by the People's Republic of China last year generate a total of 13.3 gigawatts of electricity.
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