https://www.scmp.com/rss/512078/feed Bas Heerma van Voss is a PhD student at Radboud University, on the topic of how states deal with long-term destabilising risks. He has worked as a policy officer for several Dutch public institutions. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Few of the many challenges of tackling climate change are more important in the short term yet as seemingly impenetrable as China’s slow-moving phasing out of coal. In 2020, China commissioned more than five times the coal-fired electricity capacity of the rest of the world combined. China’s investment decisions will shape the global market for coal in the coming decades, putting substantial power over global climate change mitigation in the hands of a few actors. Burdened by chronic... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170183/china-could-make-two-small-changes-dont-cost-earth-phase-out-coal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170183/china-could-make-two-small-changes-dont-cost-earth-phase-out-coal?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:15:09 +0000