EU Holds Back on Signing Climate Action Pledge With China (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/1649218/eu-holds-back-on-signing-climate-action-pledge-with-china
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-holds-back-signing-climate-action-pledge-with-china-ft-says-2025-07-07/
> The EU's climate targets are among the world's most ambitious, but they have been based entirely on domestic emissions cuts. Now the bloc faces a mid-September deadline to submit a new 2035 climate target to the United Nations.
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> Brussels has refused Beijing's repeated requests for a mutual climate commitment after the summit of the world's second- and third-largest economies, unless China promises to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, EU officials said. "There is only merit in having a declaration from our perspective if there are also content nuts to be cracked and ambition to be displayed," Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told the paper.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-holds-back-signing-climate-action-pledge-with-china-ft-says-2025-07-07/
Waste of time (Score:2)
2035 ??? are they for real?
Without major intervention now, by 2035 we're likely to breach ~1.6–1.8C warming, with escalating extreme weather, melting ice, and climate tipping risks.
To stay on a 1.5C trajectory, global emissions need to drop by ~57% by 2035—but current policies are headed in the opposite direction .
Yet the truth is that were already at ~1.6 C
The truth is we are already seeing mass displacement of people and multiple breadbasket failures just as was forecast in 2019 or earlier - y
Why make a deal with China? (Score:2)
It appears to me that China isn't the kind of nation that can be trusted to hold up their end of any deals. China has a history of playing games on international trade agreements, violations of international waters, not respecting intellectual property, and more I'm certainly forgetting.
When it comes to lowering CO2 emissions I see plenty about how China is expanding their use of wind and solar power but little to nothing about nuclear fission. This is especially odd with half of the new civil nuclear pow
But China is the world leader here (Score:2)
This makes no sense at all to me. While we're (I'm in the UK, this applies to the rest of Europe too) fretting about how to keep Russian gas supplies and other nonsense, China has built phenomenal amounts of renewal power and their emissions peaked this year, with a modest (1%) decline.
Here's a good source from the World Economic Forum. It notes the complexities and fragility of the decrease, but also shows the underlying path which lead to it. Their renewal energy capacity grew faster than their demand
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I was in Shenzhen a few months ago.
About half the cars are EVs, and 100% of the motorcycles are electric.
There are solar panels on almost every building.
The air was clean and the sky was blue.
Not every city in China is at the level of Shenzhen, but the progress is amazing.
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I'm also confused what is going on here, though I was thinking more about the renewable energy side of it, not the electric car stuff. There must be some loaded language in the declaration?
However, the way China is building up the renewable energy capacity it looks like "Yuugen Jikkou" to me. That's actually a Japanese/Romaji version of a 4-character Chinese/Japanese expression that can't be used on Slashdot anyway. I'm not sure if there is a way to say it in English. "All talk, no action" is kind of the op
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But if you actually look at how the electricity they use is generated, the percentage of it that comes from coal is [1]going down [ourworldindata.org].
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?tab=chart&time=2014..2024&tableFilter=selection&Total+or+Breakdown=Select+a+source&Energy+or+Electricity=Electricity+only&Metric=Share+of+total&Select+a+source=Coal&country=~CHN
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> This makes no sense at all to me.
it does:
> The EU is playing politics here, nothing real.
that's all the sense it's supposed to make, and it's still nonsensical politics at that. these are a bunch of non-elected aristocratic and entitled dipshits and know-nothings who only care about their careers, and are now running around like headless chickens seeing how their house of cards, daddy's empire, is collapsing. and we europeans are clueless and oblivious sheep on our way to the slaughterhouse; possibly even not in a metaphorical way. tbf, i don't think you guys in the uk have it much bet
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> China has built phenomenal amounts of renewal power and their emissions peaked this year, with a modest (1%) decline. Here's a good source from the World Economic Forum. It notes the complexities and fragility of the decrease, but also shows the underlying path which lead to it.
Sounds interesting. You forgot to paste the link, could you post it?