Despite green energy boom, dash for coal clouds China’s climate goals

China's coal power stations are responsible for more than 10 per cent of humanity’s planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions. PHOTO: REUTERS
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SINGAPORE – Across vast tracts of land and at sea, China is building wind and solar farms at a furious pace to power the world’s second-largest economy.

In 2022, China accounted for almost half of all new renewable power capacity worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency, and shows no signs of slowing down. No other nation is building as much green energy capacity or as quickly.

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