Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a new ‘order’. Xi, who is also the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, said his country is committed to being carbon neutral by 2060.
“We will make every effort to achieve this goal,” he said in a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), as quoted by AFP.
To achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, Xi said China will not fund the construction of new Steam Power Plants (PLTU) overseas. PLTU is a power plant that uses coal as a primary energy source.
But Xi’s target is indeed gradual, can’t suddenly. Because China is currently the largest coal consumer on planet earth.
In 2019, coal consumption in the Bamboo Curtain country reached 4.36 billion tons. United States (US) in second position ‘only’ 924.44 million tons.
With insufficient domestic production, China imports a lot of coal from abroad. Because of so many, China is the largest coal importer in the world.
In 2019, China’s coal imports were recorded at 360.41 million tons. Japan was ranked second with imports of 211.16 million tons. Quite a distance.
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