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Carbon-heavy development in countries part of China's Belt and Road Initiative could render the Paris climate goals unreachable, according to a new analysis on the gargantuan global infrastructure project released Monday.
The massive network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe will see trillions invested in new infrastructure across 126 countries.
While the Chinese state is putting up a significant part of the cash, the project will also see other national and private-sector investment, and opponents warn of its devastating environmental impact.
An analysis of the possible carbon footprint of infrastructure development in Belt and Road (BRI) countries said there was a significant risk of the initiative alone producing enough greenhouse gas emissions to derail the Paris climate goals.
The 2015 accord enjoins nations to cap temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 03 2019, @07:56AM (4 children)
If it wasn't clear, I want solar and fusion to end up cheaper than everything else, so the market just switches to them and electric cars. No carbon credits necessary, or subsidies. Money is already being dumped, but maybe in the wrong places, such as ITER.
The stratospheric injection could be a very cheap way of countering warming. Like millions or billions instead of trillions of $.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:28AM
RAST [wikipedia.org] borrowed from ITER and reached 100MK [soylentnews.org] this year.
As a member of ITER consortium, China's EAST was designed to test elements that will make back into the ITER [wikipedia.org].
At $20B [wikipedia.org] since 1985, with costs split between 8 parties, is certainly way cheaper than the inflation adjusted average yearly budget for NASA ($22.03 billion) [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @02:55PM
No, this is literally a civilization destroying idea. The cost of doing something like this is infinite. They want to lower the temperature 2 degrees for pretty much no reason, then another cold period will naturally happen and everyone will be far worse off.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday September 03 2019, @11:37PM (1 child)
Dropping the massive coal and oil subsidies that a lot of countries insist on keeping would help solar and wind a lot.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday September 03 2019, @11:45PM
I obviously agree. But ideally, renewables should be more cost effective than coal, natural gas, etc. even without subsidies, which will lead to rapid adoption.
Solar power will reach $1 per watt by 2020 [nextbigfuture.com]
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