Climate: China is releasing its coal production one month from COP26

It may still take time before coal, both the first source of electricity production worldwide (40 % of the global electric mix) and the first cause of greenhouse gas emissions (20 %),is definitely buried. L'explosion de la demande d'énergie en Chine incite Pékin à ressusciter cette énergie fossile, alors même que sa promesse de faire atteindre avant 2030 un pic à ses rejets de CO₂ lui dicte de faire tout le contraire.

The first coal consumer country in the world has not just returned to imports from Australia, it also relaunches its own production.The Beijing regime has revised upwards the extraction objectives in inner Mongolia, one of the largest coal -producing regions in the country, the "Financial Times" reported on Friday.

Bad signal

Its 72 local thermal power plants will have to devour 100 million tonnes more, according to the "Times Securities", a financial newspaper controlled by the State, to prevent the country from disjunct. ​Cette capacité supplémentaire équivaut à 10 % de la production annuelle de la région.A serious boost that should allow the country to end the electricity shortages that affect its economy. Faute de courant, des usines de ​produits hi-tech ont dû réduire leur production, voir l'arrêter, tandis que le nord-est de la Chine s'est vu plongé dans l'obscurité à plusieurs reprises.

A moins d'un mois de la COP26 sur le climat, du 1^er au 14 novembre à Glasgow, il ne s'agit vraiment pas d'un bon signal adressé à la communauté internationale.There is another fortunately more encouraging: "Since the Paris Agreement, the number of coal -fired power plant projects collapsed by 76 %".This is what word for word, EMBER, an independent center for studies and reflections on energy and climate in an international inventory published Friday.

Since 2015, forty-four states, from which came the second belonging to the OECD, have officially committed to no longer launching new power plants.In addition to these precursors, forty other countries, including eight from the OECD and belonging to the European Union, no longer have the slightest preliminary draft of this nature in their cardboard and are deemed close to a point of no-Ratour by EMPER experts.Among them, four countries - Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan - complete the construction of their last center, but do not intend to go further.

Irreducible country

There are still thirty-seven "irreducible" countries, that is to say always ready to consider the launch of new sites.It is still a lot, but still almost twice less than six years ago when sixty-five states still swore almost by coal.China alone represents more than half (55 %) of power plant projects under construction or to come, i.e. 153 gigawatts of additional capacity planned.India is coming behind, but very far (21 gigawatts in project).The two Asian giants, however.Since 2015, China has canceled projects for a capacity of 484 gigawatts and India for 326 gigawatts.

Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey and Bangladesh also count among countries including construction sites and projects "in pipes" are up to several units.Unlike Australia, Cambodia, Morocco, Poland and twelve other states which plan to build only one thermal factory.

Finally, note that a high number of projects depend on the funding of China.According to EMPER experts, no less than 24 countries are concerned, from Turkey to Indonesia, via Zimbabwe, Bosnia and Herzegovina and even Russia.Uplided operations, China having very recently announced that they want to stop funding the construction of new coal power plants at the International L.Unless Beijing, who has just given a penknife to his own commitments, decides to soften his doctrine vis-à-vis his partners ...

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