{"id":30944,"date":"2021-04-15T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/china-must-shut-600-coal-fired-plants-to-hit-climate-target"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:01:19","slug":"china-must-shut-600-coal-fired-plants-to-hit-climate-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30944","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018must shut 600 coal-fired plants\u2019 to hit climate target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move towards renewables to hit net zero by 2060 would also pay off with saving of $1.6tn, analysis finds<\/p>\n<p>China must shut down nearly 600 of its coal-fired power plants in the next 10 years, replacing them with renewable electricity generation, to meet its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, a report has said.<\/p>\n<p>But replacing the 364GW of coal generation with renewable power would achieve a net saving of $1.6tn (\u00a31.2tn) over the period, since wind and solar power are now much cheaper than coal, according to the analysis company TransitionZero.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/china-must-shut-600-coal-fired-plants-to-hit-climate-target\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move towards renewables to hit net zero by 2060 would also pay off with saving of $1.6tn, analysis findsChina must shut down nearly 600 of its coal-fired power plants in the next 10 years, replacing them with renewable electricity generation, to meet i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"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":[41,50,326,589,493,65,492,564,659,655,2090,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-wind-power","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944","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\/1533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944\/revisions\/30945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}