Chinese President Xi Jinping says China will aim to stop pumping additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2060.
Xi’s announcement during a speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly is a significant step for the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and was immediately cheered by climate campaigners.
Calling for a green revolution, Xi said the coronavirus pandemic had shown the need to preserve the environment.
Humankind can no longer afford to ignore the repeated warnings of nature, he said.
Xi said his country would raise its emissions reduction targets with vigorous policies and measures. We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
中国将提高国家自主贡献力度，采取更加有力的政策和措施，二氧化碳排放力争于2030年前达到峰值，努力争取2060年前实现碳中和。
“China will not only get out of importing coal and importing gas and other things over the next … they’ve said 40 years, but for coal, it’s in the next 20 years … they will get out of Australian products of those even faster.
