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[Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.]

China is considered a developing country for purposes of the Paris Accord and certain trade treatments, despite it being the second largest economy in the world. As such, China, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, pledged to increase its greenhouse gas emissions until 2030, at which point they would begin to decrease, according to the Paris agreement. Recently, China indicated, it would be carbon free by 2060.

Despite these comments from China’s government, the country is constructing 250 gigawatts of coal-fired generating capacity—more than the entire coal fleet in the United States and adding it to the over 1,000 gigawatts of coal capacity it already has—about the size of the entire generating capacity in the United States including all technologies. And, now China is taking advantage of the low oil prices resulting from the demand destruction from the coronavirus lockdowns by building storage capacity and importing crude oil.

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