Why China pledged to go carbon neutral by 2060?
On September 22, 2020, during the Seventy-fifth UN General Assembly, after a 30-year breakthrough, China made a shocking commitment: “to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emission before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.”
The world was shocked . Even Western media who loves criticising China, have to uphold their principle of "environmental protection is the ultimate political correctness" and were forced to praise China’s commitment.
Key points: Strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
The so-called carbon neutrality refers to the direct or indirect production of total greenhouse gas emissions predicted by countries, enterprises, groups or individuals within a certain period of time, and then through reforestation, energy conservation, emission reduction, and new energy substitution to offset their output carbon dioxide emissions. In other words, China will strive to achieve zero net carbon dioxide emissions nationwide by 2060.
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