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China’s Position Ahead Of COP26: Promises, Power Plants, And Politics China has filed a new emissions-cutting plan just days before the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, but it lacks significant new commitments to substantially reduce carbon output in the near future from the world’s largest polluter. All countries promised to cut emissions to limit temperature rises as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and to submit aggressive plans for further cuts every five years. We examine China’s posture ahead of the summit, which begins on Sunday. Beijing’s latest UN submission reaffirmed its target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060...
