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China and India Years Early On Climate Goals

posted by n1 on Thursday May 18 2017, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the smoke-the-competition dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

As corporations, citizens and governments continue to urge the Trump administration to stick with the Paris Climate Agreement, a new analysis is undercutting one of the climate naysayers primary objections:

China and India are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.

Those, at least, are the findings from Climate Action Tracker which suggest that scaling back of coal consumption in both countries is likely to be enough to 'cancel out' the expected slowing down of progress by the United States under President Trump. India, for example, had pledged to lower the emissions intensity by 33 to 35 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. The new analysis suggests they will leap past that mark to a 42 to 45 percent cut in emissions intensity by 2030.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @02:36PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @02:36PM (#511692)

    > The US still uses coal after all.

    The US still uses coal but the US does not need coal.
    The only reason we continue to use coal is because of the sunk costs of building the plants.
    NatGas is cheaper, cleaner and more efficient in that it is relatively easy to modulate output to match demand.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 19 2017, @04:32AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 19 2017, @04:32AM (#512014) Journal
    In other words, when China builds coal burning plants, it's "years early on climate goals". When the US does the same thing, it's "the US doesn't need coal". I think it's reasonable to ask for equal treatment here.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 19 2017, @04:40AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 19 2017, @04:40AM (#512018) Journal
      For an example of equal treatment, I advocate global trade even though it does have a modest negative effect on low skilled labor in the US - because it creates such a tremendous improvement in the lives of everyone outside of the developed world.