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    While energy use continues to rise, China's CO2 emissions have begun declining due to renewable energy. Its wind and solar capacity now surpasses total US electricity generation from all sources.
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    While energy use continues to rise, China’s CO2 emissions have begun declining due to renewable energy. Its wind and solar capacity now surpasses total US electricity generation from all sources.


    "The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in the latest 12 months."

    It's possible that this is a blip, and a rise could continue. China is still using plenty of fossil fuels and recently deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. Also, China is still behind on the 2030 C02 emissions targets it pledged under the Paris Agreement.

    Still, renewables growth keeps making massive gains in China. In the first quarter of 2025, China installed a total of 74.33 GW of new wind and solar capacity, bringing the cumulative installed capacity for these two sources to 1,482 GW. That is greater than the total US electricity capacity from all sources, which is at 1,324 GW.

    While energy use continues to rise, China's CO2 emissions have begun declining due to renewable energy. Its wind and solar capacity now surpasses total US electricity generation from all sources.
    byu/lughnasadh inFuturology

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    1. DruidicMagic on

      The fossil fuel industry has legions of lobbyists in DC to ensure we never go green.

    3. WallishXP on

      If China can exclusively export fuel to the other nations that still need them, they will redefine power dynamics, literally.

    4. godsgiftpe on

      Love how the creator of this thread is clearly Chinese. You do not live in a free society. I have been there multiple times. It sucks. I have kissed the ground every time I return to America.

    5. hatred-shapped on

      Whoa! So those few hundred coal plants they built have carbon capture or something? At least we know that technology works, let’s start building a bunch in the US.

    6. ColoradoElkFrog on

      Fake News. If you want to know what’s really going on in China, you have to tap into their non-MSM. Hilarious you are all praising China when they post this stuff purposely. Stop being so stupid.