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China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. In 2024, coal accounted for ~60% of China’s electricity generation, while wind, solar, hydro, nuclear contributing most of the remainder (wind and solar countributed around 9% each).
China produces almost 5 billion tons of coal per year. This is more than half of the global total production volume.
That's true.
And it doesn't contradict what I wrote. Here is something with the full picture:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-building-new-coal-and-when-it-might-stop/
In the end it doesn't matter how much PV is installed. China is the world's biggest polluter, the country's climate actions are among the worst worldwide. It's a disaster for the climate.
Considering that this website does not consider the footprint of imports and travel (e.g. incoming tourists), you must be joking, right?
A country like France (mostly nuclear with low footprint) has a big chunk of is Gdp coming from tourism and produces close to nothing anymore. They import everything.
So of course, their score would be high. But if you look at the full picture, it's just horrible.
Anyway. I work in the renewable and meet 10 blind/arrogant/ignorant people with the same arguments every week ✌️
The CAT tracks whether a government is doing its “fair share” compared with others towards the global effort to limit warming consistent with the agreed Paris Agreement.
Regarding imports: China reduced its coal import in the first 7 months of 2025 by 13% year-on-year because it has been ramping up its own coal production.
China is the world's biggest polluters against all comparable metrics.
It's not just your lack of argument but also your tonality that is unfortunately so widespread on Lemmy, turning the platform into a dumping ground for totalitarian propaganda.
The Paris agreement focuses on inland emissions and fails to consider the emissions related to imported products. Do you understand this concept?
It means that a country with only services, that imports all the (physical) products they consume will de facto be doing great, while the country manufacturing the goods will go poorly.
Guess who organized and decided in Paris? The occident, who was relocating their production to Asia. Pretty convenient 🤣
Additionally, comparing absolute values is meaningless, because a country like Liechtenstein cannot be compared with China.
Finally, the projections are calculated linearly, although the rate of installations of PV and wind turbines in China is growing exponentially. So these projections benefit the West (which actually mostly sees a linear YoY growth).
If my tonality hurt your feelings, that's not really my problem. Is it?