China on track to comply with Paris Accord … by INCREASING emissions?

NewImageYou read that right. In Obama’s brilliance, China can output as much as it wants until 2030. 

New greenhouse gas emissions data from the environmental group Greenpeace shows China is still on track to meet its pledge to fight global warming under the Paris Agreement.

Greenpeace found China’s carbon dioxide emissions were increasing at their fastest rate in seven years, based on Chinese government figures, the Financial Times reported.

Wait, that can’t be right. How is that in line with the Paris accord?

That’s because China’s Paris accord pledge was to “peak” emissions by 2030, meaning they could increase in the years leading up to then. China’s 4-percent uptick in emissions in the first quarter of 2018 is still in line with its Paris pledge.

China’s CO2 emissions increased 1.2 percent in 2017, despite peaking coal demand, largely because “of rising oil and gas demand,” the International Energy Agency reported in March.

News of rising emissions in China comes a day before the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump announcing he would withdraw from the Paris accord. The U.S. is still technically part of the Paris agreement until at least 2019.

Trump said the Paris accord put the U.S. at a disadvantage by allowing countries, like China and India, to increase their emissions.

“This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States,” Trump said outside the White House in 2017.

“They can do whatever they want for 13 years. Not us,” said Trump, referring to China and India.

China Is On Track To Comply With The Paris Accord … By INCREASING Emissions?

New greenhouse gas emissions data from the environmental group Greenpeace shows China is still on track to meet its pledge to fight global warming under the Paris Agreement. Greenpeace found China’s carbon dioxide emissions were increasing at their fastest rate in seven years, based on Chinese government figures, the Financial Times reported.

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