{"id":403686,"date":"2021-03-08T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403686"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:58:03","slug":"chinas-top-leaders-leave-tough-climate-decisions-to-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-top-leaders-leave-tough-climate-decisions-to-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top leaders leave tough climate decisions to bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowing global warming comes down to cutting emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. There are different ways to get there, but a country&#8217;s policies flow from that top-level target. China, the world\u2019s biggest polluter, fell short when it unveiled its goal for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s second-biggest economy said Friday it plans to lower emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 18% by 2025\u2014the same level it targeted in the previous five-plan. The lack of new ambition was conspicuous after President Xi Jinping won international praise in September for pledging to get China to net zero by 2060.<\/p>\n<p>The new targets were in line with where current trends show China is heading anyway. Plans to get a fifth of the country\u2019s energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2025 would mean growing its wind and solar generation by an average of 12% a year, about the same rate U.S. installations increased under former President Donald Trump, who actively opposed green energy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowing global warming comes down to cutting emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. There are different ways to get there, but a country&#8217;s policies flow from that top-level target. China, the world\u2019s biggest polluter, fell short when it unveiled its goal for the next five years. The world\u2019s second-biggest economy said Friday it plans to lower emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 18% by 2025\u2014the same level it targeted in the previous five-plan. The lack of new ambition was conspicuous after President Xi Jinping won international praise in September for pledging to get China to net zero by 2060. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}