Climate Points \u2013 Let\u2019s revisit this often talked about but frequently ignored phenomenon nobody is spared from.<\/p>\n
And often, the West tends to blame EM\u2019s for it:<\/p>\n
\u00abIt’s China’s fault, not ours!\u00bb was the general outcry about climate change typically, \u201cor India\u2019s\u201d, which worryingly is indeed upping its contributions too. But surprising to many, the truth is the US is the highest in stuffing the most greenhouse gases into our thin, blue atmosphere since 1850! (c. Carbon Brief). By the end of 2021, the U.S. had emitted more than 509 billion tons of carbon dioxide, or\u00a020%\u00a0of the global historical total. China was\u00a0a relatively distant second, with 11%, followed by Russia, with 7%, Brazil with 5%\u00a0and Indonesia with 4%, the latter two due mainly to carbon dioxide released from land disturbance, like deforestation and agriculture.\u00a0Our World in Data reported that China does now lead the world in total annual emissions but the US still emit far more per person each year than China or India. \u00a0Climate change makes splashy headlines when protesters hurl soup at priceless paintings or devastating floods pummel\u00a0communities, writes USA Today’s Dinah Pulver in a great round-up, but it is\u00a0also\u00a0increasingly disrupting daily life<\/a>. As for solutions, while \u00abmarket-based\u00bb approaches to slow climate change were a\u00a0dominant theme in 2022<\/a>,\u00a0there’s growing\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0sharp criticism<\/a>\u00a0from the U.N. secretary-general\u00a0and others about why capitalism, which largely created this daunting\u00a0problem,\u00a0won’t solve it.\u00a0Manfred Laubichler, a professor of Theoretical Biology and the History of Biology at Arizona State University says that to slow climate change, a reasonable regulatory framework is key: for instance, if companies were required to address the \u00ablife cycle\u00bb emissions of their products, from coal mining to decaying landfill plastics, greenhouse gas emissions would quickly ratchet down.<\/p>\n Tagged with this, China has ambitiously embarked on addressing Climate Change and in particular emissions issues and improving the landscape with more efficient, cleaner energy.<\/p>\n China is on track to double its wind and solar energy capacity and hit its 2030 clean energy targets five years early, a new report has found. The country is expected to produce 1,200 gigawatts of solar and wind power by 2025 if all prospective plants are built and commissioned, according to the study from the nonprofit, Global Energy Monitor. Solar capacity in China is now greater than the rest of the world combined. Its onshore and offshore wind capacity has doubled since 2017 and is roughly equal to the combined total of the other top seven countries, according to the report. The country\u2019s renewable energy boom is the result of a combination of incentives and regulations, according to the report. China pledged in 2020 to become carbon neutral by 2060. But, while China may have become the global leader in renewable energy, the world\u2019s biggest producer of planet-heating pollution is also\u00a0ramping up coal production<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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