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Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time (www.carbonbrief.org)
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The latest data, for the first quarter of 2025, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable or falling for more than a year, as shown in the figure below.

However, with emissions remaining just 1% below the recent peak, it remains possible that they could jump once again to a new record high.

Outside of the power sector, emissions increased 3.5%, with the largest rises in the use of coal in the metals and chemicals industries.

Sector-by-sector analysis suggests that, in addition to the power sector, emissions have likely also peaked in the building materials and steel sectors, as well as oil products consumption.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 19 hours ago

This is what going all in on solar and EV grid storage gives you.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

It’s almost as if you believe your government can be constructive and do things to improve society that it can actually work.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 6 points 18 hours ago

I think the rest of the article (just below the graph you added) gives a decent overvue on how the situation is, and includes some equaly decent projections. It looks like there is a possibility that they have peaked, and will plateau or hopefully will diminish emittions. Still, no certainty that this is a trend, or that it will continue.

And June is a month to keep an eye out to see how its new electricity pricing policy for renewable energy will be.

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