China plans massive new coal reserve while Western nations phase out fossil fuels
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan targets a 100-million-tonne annual coal reserve by 2030, but its existing surplus is already six times that size
Coal still supplies 54 percent of China’s electricity and 57 percent of its primary energy despite renewable energy growth
China began construction on 94.5 gigawatts of new coal plants in 2024, accounting for 93 percent of global new coal construction
Analysts argue Western net-zero policies have shifted industrial capacity and emissions to China rather than reducing them worldwide
China’s emissions have grown by over 3 billion tons annually even as the US, EU, and UK have cut their own
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