"In a video address to the United Nations Climate Summit on 24 September, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels by 2035. The pace at which China cuts emissions will have profound global impact. The country has accounted for 90% of the growth in the world's CO emissions since 2015 and it is now the largest GHG emitter in the world"
"The latest targets are part of China's new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a climate-action plan that all countries subject to the Paris agreement must submit to the UN every five years. China also set clean-energy targets for 2035. The importance of China's latest NDC is that its targets cover the years until 2035, past the country's proposed peak, says Yao Zhe, a Beijing-based researcher of China's climate policy at Greenpeace East Asia."
China announced a target to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels by 2035. The country accounted for 90% of the growth in global CO emissions since 2015 and now represents roughly one-third of global greenhouse-gas emissions. China pledged to peak CO emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The new Nationally Determined Contribution extends targets through 2035 and includes clean-energy goals. Greenpeace researcher Yao Zhe describes the NDC as the first official post-peak plan. Analysts warn that China’s pace of cuts will strongly influence global emissions trajectories and Paris outcomes.
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