Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks remotely during the 76th Session of the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York on September 21. The announcement to stop building coal-fired power plants abroad was made by Xi Jinping in an address to the UN last week
The Chinese government made the surprise announcement last week that it will stop building coal-fired power stations abroad, a decision that could put it in the good books of the increasingly eco-conscious European Union.
The pledge was made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a pre-recorded address to the UN General Assembly, although he gave few details and questions remain whether he meant China will cease financing coal plants overseas or merely stop building them, a far less impressive pledge.
