This is possibly the most depressing line I've read out of #COP26 so far: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 
Worth remembering that a near-term emissions peak, by 2025 or so, is very much in line with China's own internal plans around its power and heavy-emitting industries.
The fact that we have seen no advance of the pre-Paris Agreement target of 2030 is incredibly telling.
The fact that we have seen no advance of the pre-Paris Agreement target of 2030 is incredibly telling.
Really worth remembering that "2030 peak" wasn't a new thing from Xi's 2020 UNGA speech, it dates all the way back to 2015: reuters.com/article/us-fra…
China is nearly a third of annual global emissions, more than the U.S., EU, Japan, and South Korea put together, so whatever it does or doesn't do has an outsized influence.
"Too time-consuming". God help us.
For all that we rightly criticize the sort of thin-but-glossy PDF decarbonization policies that the likes of Australia have presented industry.gov.au/sites/default/… China hasn't done even that.
We're left with these unofficial third-party projections from academics instead, plus whatever can be cobbled together from emerging elements of the current five-year plan: carbonbrief.org/influential-ac…
If anyone thinks they can see more concrete details in the 1+N plans released last month then I'd be happy to accept that. But I find I really have to squint to see anything firm:
https://twitter.com/LHongqiao/status/1452930913449529349
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