{"id":69881,"date":"2025-03-06T02:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/eu-ambassador-to-china-urges-beijing-to-stop-building-coal-fired-power-plants"},"modified":"2025-03-06T02:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:48:30","slug":"eu-ambassador-to-china-urges-beijing-to-stop-building-coal-fired-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69881","title":{"rendered":"EU ambassador to China urges Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Toledo\u2019s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingly at odds with its green ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an EU-hosted event in Beijing, Jorge Toledo said the war in Ukraine had underlined the need for energy security, but that the EU had managed to navigate the issue without reverting to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/eu-ambassador-to-china-urges-beijing-to-stop-building-coal-fired-power-plants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Toledo\u2019s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024The EU\u2019s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,589,493,65,221,530,492,659,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-europe","category-european-union","category-fossil-fuels","category-renewable-energy","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\/69881","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69881\/revisions\/69882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}