While that is true, I believe that those are all replacement power plants. As in there was already an old much dirtier coal power plant in operation that needed replacement. If that is also the case, emissions may have finally peaked and we can begin the long hard road of cleanup and total phaseout.

Yeah, it sounds great, I want this to be true…

This is just unbelievable. I don’t believe it. Numbers are too easy to play with, you can make projections or look at rate of growth rate and say that’s a tipping point. I want to see CO2 emissions diving on a bar graph, because physics doesn’t use creative statistics

Not to mention an emissions decline means we’re still making things worse, but not quite so quickly.

Obviously the path to making things better would have to pass through here, but just as people thinking electric cars are a solution rather than more of the problem, the delusion that this is winning is also part of the problem.

It really is not. China has built a lot of green tech in the last few years, but economic growth has meant energy consumption grew faster then renewables. However Chinas economy has problems, which China tries to solve by going green. So you get renewables and things like EVs actually replacing fossil fuels.

At the same time China is not a saint and per capita emissions are above those of most European countries right now.