{"id":53009,"date":"2023-02-28T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/28\/china-energy-policies-gdp-climate-goals-clash"},"modified":"2023-02-28T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:28:59","slug":"confusion-surrounds-chinas-energy-policies-as-gdp-and-climate-goals-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53009","title":{"rendered":"Confusion surrounds China\u2019s energy policies as GDP and climate goals clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of permits for coal-fired power plants sparks concern as ambitions for GDP growth and lowering emissions come into conflict<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s energy policies are fast creating a type of \u201cemissions ambiguity\u201d, as the twin goals of boosting GDP growth and reducing carbon emissions come into conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty is whether and when the world\u2019s biggest carbon emitter will start to curb greenhouse gas pollution. The release of the country\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/PressRelease\/202302\/t20230227_1918979.html\">annual statistics communique on Tuesday<\/a> did not clear things up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/28\/china-energy-policies-gdp-climate-goals-clash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of permits for coal-fired power plants sparks concern as ambitions for GDP growth and lowering emissions come into conflictChina\u2019s energy policies are fast creating a type of \u201cemissions ambiguity\u201d, as the twin goals of boosting GDP growth and redu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3276,"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":[41,6,50,556,2331,2857,493,65,2394,492,564,659,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-climate-crisis","category-emissions-trading","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuel-divestment","category-fossil-fuels","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-renewable-energy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009","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\/3276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53010,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009\/revisions\/53010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}