Chinese President Xi Jinping says
his country will aim to stop pumping additional carbon dioxide, the main global
warming gas, into the atmosphere by 2060.
Chinese President Xi
Jinping says his country will aim to stop pumping additional carbon
dioxide, the main global warming gas, into the atmosphere by 2060.
Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the UN
General Assembly is a significant step for the world's biggest emitter of
greenhouse gases and was immediately cheered by climate campaigners.
Calling for a
green revolution, Xi said the coronavirus pandemic had shown the need to
preserve the environment.
Humankind can no
longer afford to ignore the repeated warnings of nature, he said.
Citing the Paris
Agreement that he and former US President Barack Obama helped forge in 2015, Xi
said his country would raise its emissions reduction targets with vigorous
policies and measures. We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and
achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, he said.
Many countries
have pledged they will aim to go carbon neutral by 2050, including the European
Union.
The United States
has so far not set such a goal. President Donald Trump, who once describing
climate change as a hoax invented by China, has started the process of pulling
the US out of the Paris accord.
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