In global carbon dioxide emissions, the world cannot win
the fight against climate change china is the world's largest emitter of carbon
dioxide followed by the united states and India in a moment.
India hundreds of people have died in flash floods over
recent weeks during the monsoon and those rains are to intensify and get even
harder to predict which could mean millions of people living under threat so
extreme weather is a real risk and there are ambitious targets here for
increasing renewable energy especially from solar power fossil fuels will play
a major role way into the future as the country keeps growing and developing
and the overall energy demand rises further and there is a sense that climate
change is the responsibility of other industrial nations like the USA that
have burning coal for more than a century and while India is the third-largest
emitter despite being home to 17 percent of the world's population it only
produces seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions so while other
countries have set targets for reaching net-zero in terms of carbon emissions
there isn't even a date under consideration for that here to try to tackle climate change.
Shanghai China is the world's most populous nation and for
some years it's also been the world's
most polluting nation rapid economic growth here over the last 20 years fueled by
plentiful coal means that china is the world's biggest emitter of carbon
dioxide it's responsible for more than one-quarter of all the greenhouse gas
emissions on the planet half the coal burned in the world are burned here and
it's going up China says it won't hit peak coal use for a further five years
its president xi Jinping says that by 2030 it will hit its peak in terms of
carbon emissions it will be a further 30 years to 2060 until he says this the country will be net-zero on carbon emissions china is though gradually changing
its energy mix it's investing a lot in particular in solar it wants a need
cleaner less polluting air for its people.
The government says the world should have full confidence
in its climate plant, it's clear that Beijing doesn't want to endanger as it
sees it its economic powerhouse by weaning itself off of coal too quickly here
in the united states, people shouldn't need a wake-up call about climate change
from a scientific report because they're already living in unprecedented heat
and severe drought is fueling massive wildfires across the northwest of the
country the u.s has itself to blame historically it's released more carbon
dioxide into the air than any other country 400 billion metric tons.
It's the world's second-biggest polluter after china in
2019 produced 6.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide that number fell last
year because of the break that covid 19 put on travel and the Biden the administration plans to reduce emissions, even more, He's pushing an ambitious agenda for a switch to green energy
so he welcomed the climate report.
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