{"id":35317,"date":"2021-08-16T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/you-follow-the-governments-agenda-chinas-climate-activists-walk-a-tightrope"},"modified":"2021-08-16T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T02:59:29","slug":"you-follow-the-governments-agenda-chinas-climate-activists-walk-a-tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35317","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You follow the government\u2019s agenda\u2019: China\u2019s climate activists walk a tightrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IPCC\u2019s alarming report has Chinese environmentalists wondering how to push a government that brooks no criticism into taking more action<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the IPCC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/09\/climate-crisis-unequivocally-caused-by-human-activities-says-ipcc-report\">alarming warning<\/a> last week that human induced climate change is affecting every corner of the planet, China\u2019s environmental activists were left wondering what they could do to push their government into taking more action.<\/p>\n<p>Having prioritised rapid economic development for decades, China is responsible for a long list of environmental disasters and concerns, and produces around a third of the world\u2019s carbon emissions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/sep\/22\/china-pledges-to-reach-carbon-neutrality-before-2060\">It has made ambitious pledges<\/a> to hit peak emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060, but still drawn warnings that it may not be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/china-five-year-plan-emissions\">possible under their current trajectory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/you-follow-the-governments-agenda-chinas-climate-activists-walk-a-tightrope\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IPCC\u2019s alarming report has Chinese environmentalists wondering how to push a government that brooks no criticism into taking more actionIn the wake of the IPCC\u2019s alarming warning last week that human induced climate change is affecting every corner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,326,65,837,761,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-global-climate-talks","category-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35317","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35317\/revisions\/35318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}