{"id":23035,"date":"2020-09-24T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/chinas-surprise-climate-pledge-leaves-australia-naked-in-the-wind-analysts-say"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T02:24:43","slug":"chinas-surprise-climate-pledge-leaves-australia-naked-in-the-wind-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23035","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s surprise climate pledge leaves Australia &#8216;naked in the wind&#8217;, analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing now has a more ambitious long-term climate goal than Australia \u2013 and there are fears that could have a dire impact on our economy<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s resistance to a mid-century net zero emissions target is likely to become increasingly unsustainable after China surprised global leaders by pledging it would reach \u201ccarbon neutrality\u201d before 2060, climate analysts and advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/sep\/22\/china-pledges-to-reach-carbon-neutrality-before-2060\">announcement<\/a> by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, at the UN general assembly on Tuesday means the world\u2019s biggest emitter has a more ambitious long-term climate goal than Australia despite still being considered an emerging economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/chinas-surprise-climate-pledge-leaves-australia-naked-in-the-wind-analysts-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing now has a more ambitious long-term climate goal than Australia \u2013 and there are fears that could have a dire impact on our economyAustralia\u2019s resistance to a mid-century net zero emissions target is likely to become increasingly unsustainable af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,50,326,65,564,835,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-paris-climate-agreement","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions\/23036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}