China is still the world's biggest polluter through the use of fossil energy and the emission of greenhouse gases, but the government has now presented ambitious plans to make their economy CO2-neutral by 2060. The figures for the expansion of renewables in 2020 are indeed remarkable. But how were they counted?
Last week, the responsible Chinese authority, together with the Danish Energy Agency, with which China has been cooperating since 2005, presented the expansion figures for 2020: According to these, China expanded a global record 120 gigawatts of wind and solar energy last year. The figures suggest that the country is well on ...