Can we fix the climate without China??

China's President Xi Jinping recently announced that his country will be reach net zero carbon by 2060. China is installing more renewable energy than any other country in the world, but they also added the equivalent of one large coal power plant to their electricity grid every single week in 2020. So how can these apparently contradictory policies possibly square up?

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United Nations Just Transition report
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