Why China’s new climate targets matter for everyone | Semafor
Why China’s new climate targets matter for everyone | Semafor
Beijing is set to reveal its post-peaking roadmap for the first time.
Curious to see China as the whipping boy of climate change, even as the US consumer markets pivot to the far dirtier India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines for its cheap labor and consumer surplus.
China is the biggest emitter. India and Indonesia have about a quarter of Chinas per capita emissions. Malaysia is about as bad as China in terms of per capita emissions. It however is also about as rich as China in per capita terms, so not a place for truely cheap workers.
China is the biggest emitter. India and Indonesia have about a quarter of Chinas per capita emissions.
China isn't the biggest emitter per capita. Why would you suddenly shift the goalposts between sentences?
Malaysia is about as bad as China in terms of per capita emissions.
The big difference being that Chinese emissions per capita have finally started falling, while Malaysia and India are seeing an unchecked rise. A big part of this shift is due to the production of western-oriented consumer goods production. As the Chinese state grows more strict in their emissions standards, international business is shifting manufacturing to countries with looser regulations and weaker government institutions.
It’s just posturing. There’s an economic factor behind it. If there was not a profit to be made, they would be burning coal with great abandon.