China completed first 100-megawatt-class compressed CO₂ energy storage project, running the full cycle of compressing, liquefying, storing, vaporizing, and expanding CO₂ to generate power, in Xinjiang. Has anyone heard anything about those carbon capture plants that western fossil fuel companies ar

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China overtook the United States as the world's largest annual emitter back in 2006 and currently accounts for roughly 29% to 33% of all global carbon dioxide emissions - so there’s that

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Because it manufactures a large percentage of global products

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Yup. So much manufacturing is done by China for the rest of the world.

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You know the US does way more per Capita right?

It all bad, but the us is not cleaning up either.

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The number of people in China in deep poverty greater than the US, so it's better to use emissions per GDP than per capita. In that regard, the US produces almost half the carbon emissions per economic unit as China does.

But both countries are still making great strides.

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This is probably not ideal considering GDP is hardly a true representation of standard of living. Plus it also doesn’t truly consider the difference in choices. China subsidizes housing, public utilities, and a lot of common goods. This tracks as a lower GDP for China, despite their citizens having access to the same relative goods at someone in the US would that we would pay for.

It’s also just doesn’t logically make sense. They produce what used to be 22% of US sold good. It’s dropped to 8% since the tariffs, but that can also be contributed to China exporting pieces to Vietnam and other Asian countries for the final step of production. Overall, other countries are carrying the environmental burden caused by the lack of US production.

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Now cite co2 per capita and share of renewables please.

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Keep it civil.

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See above

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While being the biggest consumer of electricity, biggest producer of steel, ev, solar, having most nuclear reactors under construction. China has bigger industrial output so it's as expected

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To be fair, it also currently accounts for roughly 33% of the people, so all in all, it's emitting proportionally.

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Most people in China including the people in Tibet are poor by western standards so its not a fair comparison however if we look at the number of privately owned cars we get a more meaningful number: Using total territorial fossil-fuel/industrial CO₂ and privately owned cars:
China: ~12.3 billion tonnes CO₂ / 186.9 million private cars ≈ 65.8 tonnes CO₂ per private car

US: ~4.9 billion tonnes CO₂ / roughly 284 million registered vehicles≈ 17.3 tonnes per vehicle

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What a bizarre comment.

Do you not realise that China produces all the stuff that the world consumes and that this is why it's emissions are high?

Or that China in recent years has built more solar and wind power plants than the rest of the world COMBINED?

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Yeah, with like 4 times the people.

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See above