Can we fix the climate without China??

China's President Xi Jinping recently announced that his country will be reach net zero carbon by 2060. China is installing more renewable energy than any other country in the world, but they also added the equivalent of one large coal power plant to their electricity grid every single week in 2020. So how can these apparently contradictory policies possibly square up? Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com Help support this channels independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Download the Just Have a Think App from the AppStore or Google Play Interested in mastering and remembering the concepts that I present in my videos? Check out the FREE Dive Deeper mini-courses offered by the Center for Behavior and Climate. These mini-courses teach the main concepts in select JHAT videos and go beyond to help you learn additional scientific or conservation concepts. The courses are great for teachers to use or for individual learning.https://climatechange.behaviordevelopmentsolutions.com/just-have-a-think-jhat Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators zentouro: https://www.youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: https://www.youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience Levi Hildebrand: https://www.youtube.com/user/The100LH Simon Clark: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys Sarah Karvner: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw ClimateTown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Jack Harries: https://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ Our Changing Climate : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ Research Links Transition Zero https://turning-the-supertanker.transitionzero.org/ https://www.transitionzero.org/features-insights/turning-the-supertanker Carbon Tracker https://carbontracker.org/about/ Science Magazine Article https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540/378.full Global CCS Institute https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540/378.full United Nations Just Transition report https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Just%20transition.pdf Sheffield Hallam University report on Uyghur forced labour https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2044357a-c8d2-4d89-af75-b08333b5d992#pageNum=1 #chinanetzero #climateemergency #actnow