China’s Falling Emissions Signal Peak Carbon May Already Be Here
- Carbon Brief notes first decline since the end of the pandemic
- Renewables meet nearly all of nation’s additional power needs
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China is spewing less carbon into the atmosphere for the first time since the pandemic ended, signaling that the world’s biggest polluter may have peaked emissions more than half a decade before its own deadline, according to new research from Carbon Brief.
Emissions fell 3% in March from the prior year, the first annual decline since January 2023, Lauri Myllyvirta, senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute, said in the report released on Tuesday.