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Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges? | Hongqiao Liu
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:09:34
Publish Date: 2021-11-12 05:00:00
Description:

In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 -- a change that will require action at an unheard-of scale and speed. Can the country actually achieve this ambitious vision? In this forward-looking talk, environmental journalist and analyst Hongqiao Liu explores what the world's largest carbon emitter (and second-largest economy) will need to do to get there.
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