China’s Ambition to Stop Emission
Monday, July 12, 2021
China sets the ambitious target of becoming carbon-free before 2060. But it remains actively constructing coal-fired power plants and is still the largest importer of coal.
WATER dripped from the ceiling of the cold Datai coal mine, south of Beijing, on Friday, July 2. Wang Haijun walked through it. The 40-year-old man looked back to the tunnel behind him, to the dripping water, before continuing his journey. After 18 years of service, it was his last day working there. A Chinese media outlet, CGTN, described it.
Datai was the last of 270 mines in the Mentougou District to be shut down. For hundreds
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