A labourer shovels coal at a storage site in Hefei, in China’s Anhui province, in 2011. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Outside In
by David Dodwell
War on climate change is doomed if China turns back towards the coalface
While last year’s summit in Poland signalled renewed commitment to the fight to curb carbon emissions, recent studies point to China quietly moving back towards coal-fired power and Chinese institutions financing coal plants in other countries