{"id":38325,"date":"2021-10-25T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:03:14","slug":"china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38325","title":{"rendered":"China to cut fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite pushing ahead with dozens of new coal power plants, China has a new plan to increase wind and solar power in its march towards carbon neutrality<\/p>\n<p>China is targeting a clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060, according to an official plan published by state media.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet document, released on Sunday, follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/sep\/22\/china-pledges-to-reach-carbon-neutrality-before-2060\">pledge by President Xi Jinping<\/a> to wean the world\u2019s biggest polluter off coal, with a target of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality 30 years later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite pushing ahead with dozens of new coal power plants, China has a new plan to increase wind and solar power in its march towards carbon neutralityChina is targeting a clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060, according t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,589,493,733,564,655,2090,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-gas","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-solar-power","category-wind-power","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38326,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325\/revisions\/38326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}