{"id":37221,"date":"2021-09-23T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/china-pledge-to-stop-funding-coal-projects-buys-time-for-emissions-target"},"modified":"2021-09-23T05:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:00:28","slug":"china-pledge-to-stop-funding-coal-projects-buys-time-for-emissions-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37221","title":{"rendered":"China pledge to stop funding coal projects \u2018buys time for emissions target\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China was lender of last resort for overseas governments seeking finance for coal projects<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s announcement that China will stop funding overseas coal projects could buy the world about three more months in the race to keep global heating to a relatively safe level of 1.5C, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Although the impact will depend on implementation, China\u2019s declaration should also help to kill off coal, which has been humanity\u2019s primary power source for most of the last 200 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/china-pledge-to-stop-funding-coal-projects-buys-time-for-emissions-target\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China was lender of last resort for overseas governments seeking finance for coal projectsXi Jinping\u2019s announcement that China will stop funding overseas coal projects could buy the world about three more months in the race to keep global heating to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"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":[41,50,589,493,65,492,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","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\/37221","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions\/37224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}