{"id":37972,"date":"2021-10-14T02:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/13\/will-chinas-plan-to-build-more-coal-plants-derail-cop26"},"modified":"2021-10-14T02:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:16:29","slug":"will-chinas-plan-to-build-more-coal-plants-derail-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37972","title":{"rendered":"Will China\u2019s plan to build more coal plants derail Cop26?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: while the short-term consequences are grim, veteran analysts talk of a wobble rather than a fall<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/oct\/12\/china-coal-fired-plants-uk-cop26-climate-summit-global-phase-out\">build more coal plants<\/a> is a setback for climate action, but analysts say it could still meet its long-term emission reduction targets and may even have scope to raise its ambition at Cop26 in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Beijing has announced a buildup of coal capacity to address the most severe power cuts in a decade, which have caused rolling blackouts in half its provinces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/13\/will-chinas-plan-to-build-more-coal-plants-derail-cop26\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: while the short-term consequences are grim, veteran analysts talk of a wobble rather than a fallChina\u2019s decision to build more coal plants is a setback for climate action, but analysts say it could still meet its long-term emission reduction &#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":[41,50,2331,589,493,65,2394,492,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuel-divestment","category-fossil-fuels","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972","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=37972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972\/revisions\/37973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}