Making Sense of China's "No New Coal" Announcement
b"This week, Dr.\\xa0Cecilia Han Springer with the Global China Initiative at Boston University\\u2019s Global Development Policy Center joins Nikos Tsafos and Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) to talk about announcements from China at last week\\u2019s U.S. General Assembly meetings.\\xa0Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the country would stop supporting (or building) new coal-fired power projects overseas and would move towards clean energy projects.\\xa0Dr. Springer walks us through what this important announcement does and doesn\\u2019t include, what it says about China\\u2019s broader climate ambitions, implications for the Belt and Road Initiative, and how China will need to continue domestic efforts to reduce coal plants and lower emissions. for more on China's overseas coal finance, please check this: https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-commitment-stop-overseas-financing-new-coal-plants-perspective."