{"id":50141,"date":"2022-11-11T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/china-climate-crisis-renewable-energy-goals"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:55:32","slug":"is-china-doing-enough-to-combat-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50141","title":{"rendered":"Is China doing enough to combat the climate crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it appears committed to renewable energy goals, China\u2019s international commitments fall short of what experts say is needed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/live\/2022\/nov\/11\/cop27-egypt-joe-biden-climate-conference-decarbonisation-live-updates\">Cop27 live \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After decades of fossil fuel-driven economic growth and industrialisation, China is now the world\u2019s biggest carbon emitter, contributing almost a third of the world\u2019s greenhouse gases in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the most exposed to the impact of the climate crisis, in terms of its population size and number of environmental disasters, according to UN figures. Average temperatures and sea levels have risen faster than global averages, and in just one year since Cop26, China has experienced record-breaking floods and heatwaves, bringing with them severe energy crises.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/china-climate-crisis-renewable-energy-goals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it appears committed to renewable energy goals, China\u2019s international commitments fall short of what experts say is neededCop27 live \u2013 latest news updatesAfter decades of fossil fuel-driven economic growth and industrialisation, China is now the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[401,41,50,556,2331,589,403,493,65,2394,492,564,212,659,655,2090,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-climate-crisis","category-coal","category-egypt","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuel-divestment","category-fossil-fuels","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-wind-power","category-world-news","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\/50141","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50142,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions\/50142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}