New US Envoy on Climate Urges China to Expedite Transition from Coal
John Podesta, the new U.S. envoy on climate change, is calling on China to speed up its green-energy transition and take its responsibility toward mitigating climate change more seriously. Even though China is still the largest greenhouse-gas emitter on the globe after overtaking the United States in 2006, Podesta believes the economic giant still has more online coal than it needs and that is healthy for the world. China emitted 27% of the world’s entire greenhouse-gas emissions in 2020, according to the World Resources Institute’s CAIT database. The country also produces 12.7 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per…