BEIJING China on Monday asked developed countries to stop using the coal first and give fiscal aid to developing countries to borrow green technologies as it defended its move to join hands with India in calling for” phase down” rather of” phase out”of coal in the final textbook of the COP26 conference protestation.
Mediators from nearly 200 countries accepted a new climate agreement after the COP26 peak in Glasgow concluded on Saturday with a deal, which recognises India’s intervention for the world to”phase down” rather than” phase out”fossil energies.
” Low carbon metamorphosis is an overriding trend and the thing all countries are working towards,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told a media briefing then.
He was responding to a question on COP26 Chairman Alok Sharma’s reported commentary that China and India need to explain to developing nations why they doused down the language on sweats to phase out coal at the conference and rejected calls for “ phasing out” coal horsepower rather decided to “ phasing down”.
Zhao said, “ the enhancement of the energy structure and reduction of the rate of carbon consumption is a progressive process that requires respect for the public circumstances of different countries and their development stage as well as their different coffers”.
” So we should first give consideration to this gap in energy and insure energy security for the developing countries. We encourage advanced countries to stop using coal first and also hope they can give support to backing technology to developing countries,” he said.
Chinese sanctioned media has criticised the Western media for targeting China and India for pressing “ phase down” use of coal power rather of” phase out” in the final textbook espoused by 197 countries at the COP26 conference which concluded last week.
Climate scientists hailed the” unknown determination of diving global warming” demonstrated by peak actors, especially developing countries including China and India, as not only emphasizing the urgency of the climate issue but also a encouragement for developed countries to match their pledges with conduct, state- run Global Times reported on Monday.
All actors of COP26, especially developing countries, have demonstrated unknown ambition and determination to attack climate change, Pan Jiahua, director of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, told the Global Times.
He praised India for its pledge to target net zero hothouse gas emigrations by 2070.
“It’s nearly a charge insolvable for India, which relies on coal for 75 per cent of its electricity,” said Pan, praising India for showing” precious determination.”
In his reply, Zhao said China pays high significance to green metamorphosis and has made “ tremendous sweats” to control the coal consumption of coal- fired power shops.
Since this time, President Xi Jinping has blazoned a series of measures to rigorously control the coal- fired power shops and to put strict control on the growth of coal consumption during the current 14th five- time plan and to gradationally reduce that in the 15th five- time plan.
“We also support green and low carbon development in developing countries and we won’t make new coal power factory systems overseas. This has won great sun from the transnational community and we also reiterated it in the common protestation with the US in Glasgow,” Zhao said.
