Low bar, high hopes: China unveils new climate goals

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Paradoxically, it is also a clean energy powerhouse, rapidly shifting to renewable energy while selling the world its solar panels, batteries and electric cars.
54% : With the year's main climate summit in Brazil fast approaching in November, expectations were running high for President Xi Jinping's announcement Wednesday at the United Nations.
50% : China's 2021 pledge was to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060.
41% : Beijing's trajectory will be crucial to whether the world can limit end-of-century warming to 1.5C, the threshold UN scientists say is needed to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate disruption.
33% : The geopolitical context has raised the stakes: the United States has again quit the Paris accord under Donald Trump, who dismisses climate change as a "con job," while a fractious European Union has yet to set a new target. - Cut economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by 7-10 percent from peak levels while "striving to do better."

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