President Xi Jinping has announced that China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, will reduce emissions by 7–10% by 2035, with the goal of “striving to do better.” The pledge, delivered in a video statement to the UN in New York, marks China’s first absolute reduction target.
China will expand wind and solar power sixfold from 2020 levels, boost forest stocks, and make electric vehicles mainstream in new sales. The target applies to all greenhouse gases, measured from peak levels, though no date for the peak was specified.
The commitment comes as countries scramble to update their Paris Agreement pledges ahead of COP30 in Brazil. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that only drastic reductions this decade can keep the 1.5C goal alive.
Critics, including Greenpeace East Asia, argue the cuts fall short, noting that scenarios aligned with 1.5C require far deeper reductions of up to 50%.
Source: BBC News
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