The country’s carbon emissions could enter structural decline next year, but there’s a big if.
Solar panels at a photovoltaic power station in Fujian, China. Credit: Yaorusheng via Getty Images
From the barren sands of the Gobi Desert to the high grounds of the Tibetan Plateau, China is building one mega renewable energy project after another. Its combined hydro, wind, solar and nuclear energy capacity topped 1.4 billion kilowatts by the end of October, accounting for nearly half of the country’s total power generation potential, official data shows.
The sheer scale of the effort means China may have reached a major inflection point this year, according to some analysts: for
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Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance on U.S. farm exports.
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