China is the world’s manaufacturing superpower, as this chart shows. It is important to understand how we account for China’s contirbutions to global CO2 emissions.
CO2 emissions can be accounted for using two main methods:
- territorial emissions, which measure emissions based on where goods are produced, and
- consumption-based emissions, which adjust for a country’s trade by adding emissions from the manufacture of imported goods and excluding those from exported goods.
This second approach helps to understand the true carbon footprint of a country’s consumption and its impact on global emissions.
China now distributes so much clean energy equipment to other countries that it is measurably dropping the level of polluting CO2 emissions in other nations, according to joint US-China research.
Also, due to its massive world-leading role out of renewable and clean energy capacity at home, China’s domestic CO2 emissions have started to fall. Recent research has found that the average carbon intensity of the China electricity output almost halved between 1997 and 2022, cumulatively avoiding 15.8bn tonnes of potential CO2 emissions.
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