{"id":984,"date":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/aboutus\/984\/estimating-carbon-emissions-from-chinas-coal-to-chemical-industry-during-the-13th-five-year-plan-period\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T23:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:15:34","slug":"estimating-carbon-emissions-from-chinas-coal-to-chemical-industry-during-the-13th-five-year-plan-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publication\/984\/estimating-carbon-emissions-from-chinas-coal-to-chemical-industry-during-the-13th-five-year-plan-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating Carbon Emissions from China\u2019s Coal-to-Chemical Industry during the \u201c13th Five-year Plan\u201d Period"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tChina\u2019s coal-and-chemical industry has long been controversial for its high level of carbon emissions. In the recently released \u201c13th Five-year Plan for Energy\u201d, the coal-to-chemical industry was set a number of key construction regions. Meanwhile, global fossil fuel carbon emissions have seen a zero growth rate for three years in a row. The reduction in China\u2019s coal usage over the past three years is a major contributing factor behind this.<\/p>\n

Since the Paris Agreement, China has actively committed to cutting carbon emissions. However, data from the coal-to-chemical industry reveals that if project growth cannot be controlled during the \u201c13th Five-year Plan\u201d period, it is likely to lead to a continued increase in carbon emissions. According to the summary analysis of the relevant 13th Five-year Plan content, China\u2019s coal-to-chemical industry is likely to contribute around 409 million tons of carbon emissions per year in 2020 \u2013 more than four times the figure of 90 million tons recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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China\u2019s coal-and-chemical industry has long been controversial for its high level of carbon emissions. In the recently released \u201c13th Five-year Plan for Energy\u201d, the coal-to-chemical industry was set a number of key construction regions. Meanwhile, global fossil fuel carbon emissions have seen a zero growth rate for three years in a row. The reduction in China\u2019s coal usage over the past three years is a major contributing factor behind this.<\/p>\n

Since the Paris Agreement, China has actively committed to cutting carbon emissions. However, data from the coal-to-chemical industry reveals that if project growth cannot be controlled during the \u201c13th Five-year Plan\u201d period, it is likely to lead to a continued increase in carbon emissions. According to the summary analysis of the relevant 13th Five-year Plan content, China\u2019s coal-to-chemical industry is likely to contribute around 409 million tons of carbon emissions per year in 2020 \u2013 more than four times the figure of 90 million tons recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n

Read the full report PDF here: Estimating Carbon Emissions from China\u2019s Coal-to-Chemical Industry during the \u201c13th Five-year Plan\u201d Period<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n\tChina\u2019s coal-and-chemical industry has long been controversial for its high level of carbon emissions. In the recently released \u201c13th Five-year Plan for Energy\u201d, the coal-to-chemical industry was set a number of key construction regions. Meanwhile, global fossil fuel carbon emissions have seen a zero growth rate for three years in a row. The reduction in China\u2019s coal usage over the past three years is a major contributing factor behind this. <\/p>\n

Since the Paris Agreement, China has actively committed to cutting carbon emissions. However, data from the coal-to-chemical industry reveals that if project growth cannot be controlled during the \u201c13th Five-year Plan\u201d period, it is likely to lead to a continued increase in carbon emissions. According to the summary analysis of the relevant 13th Five-year Plan content, China\u2019s coal-to-chemical industry is likely to contribute around 409 million tons of carbon emissions per year in 2020 \u2013 more than four times the figure of 90 million tons recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-coal","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}