{"id":6040,"date":"2022-10-13T04:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T04:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/chinas-clean-energy-plans-challenged-by-extreme-weather-slowing-economy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T04:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T04:48:45","slug":"chinas-clean-energy-plans-challenged-by-extreme-weather-slowing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/chinas-clean-energy-plans-challenged-by-extreme-weather-slowing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s clean energy plans challenged by extreme weather, slowing economy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Environmental non-governmental organisation Greenpeace recently found that while coal investment in the Guangdong province has dropped, investment in fossil fuel projects has risen by a fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is despite places like Guangdong being an economic powerhouse, which should mean the availability of more resources to innovate and experiment with transitioning to a cleaner energy system, said Ms Qiu Chengcheng, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>She added it seems Guangdong is looking to fossil gas as a &#8220;late-stage transition fuel&#8221;, as it wants to ensure its energy security even as it has pledged to cut coal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a vicious cycle if you&#8217;re just going to put on more fossil fuels exacerbating climate change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The increased investment in fossil fuel projects was also seen in other places in China, going up by 5 per cent annually since 2020 in Zhejiang province, and 19.9 per cent annually in Shanghai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>WEATHER WOES<\/h2>\n<p>China\u2019s pursuit of its clean energy targets has also been hampered by extreme weather this year, with a historic drought and heatwave drying up rivers and affecting hydropower output in the country\u2019s southwest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Environmental non-governmental organisation Greenpeace recently found that while coal investment in the Guangdong province has dropped, investment in fossil fuel projects has risen by a fifth.\u00a0 This is despite places like Guangdong being an economic powerhouse, which should mean the availability of more resources to innovate and experiment with transitioning to a cleaner energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6,102],"tags":[41,263,543,151,516],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-sustainability","tag-china","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}