China will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 10 per cent and increase renewable energy capacity six-fold within a decade, President Xi Jinping announced in a new climate plan, along with a thinly veiled swipe at the US.
The climate goal was described as “both underwhelming and transformative”, with experts having hoped that the world’s largest emitter and second-biggest economy would set a target at least in the mid-teens.
About twice that level is estimated to be needed to meet a Paris accord objective of limiting the average global temperature rise to 1.5C above the pre-industrial level.
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