I wonder how this is possible
How does China aim to hit climate targets? It rewrites the rules
China has made an accounting adjustment to how it counts carbon emissions, making its climate change targets easier to meet.
The world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide was previously due to fall far short of the 2025 target it set for UN climate change negotiations.
However, a significant revision to how it measures emissions means China has now officially come close to meeting the goal.
The shift also means Chinese leaders can claim to have met their international climate commitments for 2030 even if the country’s emissions rise. Previously they would have had to fall. (snip)
Lauri Myllyvirta, the centre’s lead analyst, estimated the accounting shift had erased about half of China’s growth in emissions between 2020 and last year. The reduction in emissions is big: 700 million to 730 million fewer tonnes of CO? a year, or about twice Britain’s annual emissions.
So, it’s an accounting game which hides their true CO2 output to make them look better in the eyes of the other Warmist nations. It’s all a bunch of mule fritters, of course. And CO2 is also not the world’s temperature knob.
However, China instead set a “carbon intensity” target for last year, a measure of the amount of the emissions per unit of GDP. That meant it could continue to grow its economy so long as it decarbonised at the same time.
Chinese officials recently quietly announced changes to how they defined the carbon intensity metric.
Is anyone actually believing this? Doesn’t matter, other nations want to keep buying the undervalued solar panels and wind turbines (which all have Chinese spying components).
Near the end of the article, for some reason
On Thursday the UK government confirmed a new target of cutting emissions by 87 per cent by 2040, a move The Times revealed last month.
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said the Iran war had strengthened the case for switching away from fossil fuels.
He said: “The case for setting a clear and credible long-term pathway for the UK on clean energy and climate action is stronger than ever.”
This is the same guy who took a long, fossil fueled private jet to Brazil for a climate conference last year, then traveled down a road built upon an area of the Amazon which was clearcut, right? Funny how the politicians and elites who push this stuff never give up their own use of fossil fuels.
