Global China Program News Today

At a climate summit short on specifics, China stood out. At a virtual gathering hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping made no new commitments beyond what he told the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September: “We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.” Although many of the world’s governments have committed to keeping global warming below 2 Celsius, peaking emissions in 2020 or later means that emissions would ...