{"id":589117,"date":"2023-07-05T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=589117"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:06:59","slug":"eu-climate-chief-concerned-over-expansion-of-coal-industry-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-climate-chief-concerned-over-expansion-of-coal-industry-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"EU climate chief concerned over expansion of coal industry in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s climate chief on Monday expressed concern over the expansion of China\u2019s coal industry, with the building of new coal-fired plants.<\/p>\n<p>At a conference in Beijing, Frans Timmermans said that while China is forging ahead with plans to expand its use of renewable resources such as wind and solar energy, the country has also been constructing an ever-growing number of coal-fired plants in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that seems to be in a contradiction and it is in contradiction,\u201d said Timmermans. \u201cBut at the same time, I do understand the anxiety caused by potential blackouts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s climate chief on Monday expressed concern over the expansion of China\u2019s coal industry, with the building of new coal-fired plants. At a conference in Beijing, Frans Timmermans said that while China is forging ahead with plans to expand its use of renewable resources such as wind and solar energy, the country has also been constructing an ever-growing number of coal-fired plants in the past few years. \u201cAnd that seems to be in a contradiction and it is in contradiction,\u201d said Timmermans. \u201cBut at the same time, I do understand the anxiety caused by potential blackouts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589117","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}