From The Independent:
Headlines in China tend to focus on how the country’s roaring economy is being fuelled by a lethal cocktail of coal, oil and nuclear power.
Chinese power plants emit the second-highest total amount of carbon dioxide (2.4 billion tonnes) into the atmosphere each year.
But China also has a fast-growing renewable energy sector and the country is likely to achieve – and may even exceed – its target to obtain 15 per cent of its energy from renewables by 2020, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research group that concentrates on environmental, social and economic trends.
If China’s commitment to diversifying its energy supply persists, renewable energy could provide more than 30 per cent of the nation’s energy by 2050. [Full Text]
