News Analysis Beijing is all talk and no action in terms of achieving its net-zero emissions goal. Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared in 2020 that China will be “carbon neutral” and achieve “net-zero emissions” by 2060. This announcement was greeted with much fanfare by green energy advocates around the world. According to state-run Global Times, Beijing is “all-in” on the greenies’ scheme of carbon trading, too. “China’s national carbon market, the largest emissions trading system (ETS) in the world, was officially launched on Friday, marking a milestone for the nation’s institutional innovation in pushing ahead green development and a crucial step for the country to decarbonize its economy by 2060,” the report said. Since that grand announcement, there have been many articles in Chinese state media singing the virtues of communist China’s grand march to a green future. Here are some of the agitprop headlines bleating out that narrative: • “China open …
China Fools Western Environmentalists
January 11, 2022
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