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As China awaits a reckoning over climate change targets, environmental groups are turning up the heat over the country s construction of coal-fired power plants.
China s continuing construction of coal plants has become a make-or-break issue for climate researchers and advocates as the government prepares plans to meet President Xi Jinping s goals for peaking carbon emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. How China addresses the apparent contradiction between its massive coal-fired build-out plans and its net-zero emissions plan may become one of the biggest challenges in efforts to limit the rise in global temperatures and meet climate targets, Reuters said.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland took sweeping action Friday to "prioritize action on climate change," including reinstating the ban on federal coal leasing that was part of the Obama administration's contentious "war on coal."
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that 2021 is a make or break year to confront the global climate emergency. After rejoining the Paris Agreement, the Joe Biden administration must now rise to the climate challenge and commit to an ambitious and achievable 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution of reducing the US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 to set the stage for the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in November.
The National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental group based in the US, has published an analysis, titled The Biden Administration Must Swiftly Commit to Cutting Climate Pollution at least 50 percent by 2030 , which shows that for a fraction of the United States GDP, we can help avert a global climate crisis by building an energy system that creates jobs and drives economic growth, improves public health, suppo
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