Each year China is producing so much more in greenhouse gas emissions that the U.S. and EU could become carbon neutral and it essentially wouldn't matter.
China has promised to flatten emissions by 2030, but it's going rapidly in the opposite direction.
China can at least make a huge stride towards the first goal and accomplish the second with nuclear power, in part because the country has the know-how and in part because it's not restrained by environmental groups or misled popular opinion from using it.
"Yes, China is still categorized as a developing nation by WTO, they manufacture a lot of our products and so on. But that of course no excuse for ruining future and present living conditions. We can't solve the climate crisis unless China drastically changes course," said one critic.
"In 2019, China's GHG emissions passed the 14 gigaton threshold for the first time," notes a report from the Rhodium Group.
As China continues to add both coal- and natural gas-fired plants to cater to its rapidly growing middle class, it will not start emitting fewer GHGs but continue pumping out more.
"And China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined. In 2020, China brought 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power into operation, more than three times what was brought on line everywhere else."
https://spectator.org/china-emissions-problem-nuclear-energy/
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