A week ago, the central bank of #China’s official website announced that the People's Bank will increase 100 billion yuan to support the clean and efficient use of #coal.
Already in November 2021, the People's Bank of China (#PBC) created a special reloan of 200 billion yuan to support the clean and efficient use of coal in seven areas; the total amount of reloans to support #coal has reached 300 billion yuan.
In 2021, the strict coal de-capacity policy and energy led to a #electricity shortage crisis. Today's liberalisation of coal is intended to ensure “a normal supply of energy and avoid the pain of power rationing." (Taken from China Energy Network 2022-05-17)
The #Ukraine war has shifted international political attention from the Glasgow #COP26 voluntary pledges to the Russian invasion.
Among the Glasgow pledges in detail, I see the most serious shortcomings in the pledge to phase out global funding for coal and other fossil fuels, the so-called #carbonbomb as The Guardian has currently called it, but also in the trend of continued and accelerated #deforestation
IEA's Global Methane Tracker reports higher emissions, but that may have to do with better tracking - which would be a success of Glasgow's #MethanePledge.