{"id":1344,"date":"2016-07-25T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T21:29:36","slug":"coal-pollution-in-china-has-likely-peaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Coal pollution in China has likely peaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <em>The Guardian\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The global battle against climate change has passed a historic turning point with China\u2019s huge coal burning finally having peaked, according to senior economists.<\/p>\n<p>They say the moment may well be a significant milestone in the course of the\u00a0Anthropocene, the current era in which human activity dominates the world\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>China is the world\u2019s biggest polluter and more than tripled its coal burning from 2000 to 2013, emitting billions of tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide. But its coal consumption peaked in 2014, much earlier than expected, and then began falling.<\/p>\n<p>The economists argue in a new paper on Monday that this can now be seen as permanent trend, not a blip, due to major shifts in the Chinese economy and a crackdown on pollution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jul\/25\/china-coal-peak-hailed-turning-point-climate-change-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China smog: &#039;Sky dark from air pollution&#039;  - BBC News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S27ycsxUtRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via The Guardian\u00a0 &#8220;The global battle against climate change has passed a historic turning point with China\u2019s huge coal burning finally having peaked, according to senior economists. They say the moment may well be a significant milestone in the course of the\u00a0Anthropocene, the current era in which human activity dominates the world\u2019s environment. China is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[82,118,115,117,114,116],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-china","tag-cities","tag-coal","tag-healthy","tag-pollution","tag-smog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}