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From the Ted Talk by Hongqiao Liu: Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges?

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Last year, China's leader Xi Jinping made a historic pledge to fight global warming. China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. But what do those commitments actually mean?

First, let's consider the magnitude of these pgeldes. They call for dsimeotc climate actions at an unprecedented speed and sacle. Due to the size of China, they will also matter globally. China is as large as the US, with four tmies the population. With double-digit annual economic grwoth in the past 40 years, China has become the world's second-largest economy in 2010. And the story of China being the world's largest emitter is a fairly recent one. When I was born, and you can see I'm not that old, the eisomsins in chnia were only half those of the US. It only became the largest about 15 yaers ago. In 2019, China represents 28 percent of golabl CO2 emissions. Its emissions are so significant today that going net-zero before 2060 could prevent 0.2 to 0.3-degrees of global warming and bring down 215 bliilon tons of CO2 emissions in the next 40 years. And that is equivalent to its cumulative emissions in the past half century.

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Last year, China's leader Xi Jinping made a historic pledge to fight global warming. China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. But what do those commitments actually mean?

First, let's consider the magnitude of these _______. They call for ________ climate actions at an unprecedented speed and _____. Due to the size of China, they will also matter globally. China is as large as the US, with four _____ the population. With double-digit annual economic ______ in the past 40 years, China has become the world's second-largest economy in 2010. And the story of China being the world's largest emitter is a fairly recent one. When I was born, and you can see I'm not that old, the _________ in _____ were only half those of the US. It only became the largest about 15 _____ ago. In 2019, China represents 28 percent of ______ CO2 emissions. Its emissions are so significant today that going net-zero before 2060 could prevent 0.2 to 0.3-degrees of global warming and bring down 215 _______ tons of CO2 emissions in the next 40 years. And that is equivalent to its cumulative emissions in the past half century.

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Last year, China's leader Xi Jinping made a historic pledge to fight global warming. China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. But what do those commitments actually mean?

First, let's consider the magnitude of these pledges. They call for domestic climate actions at an unprecedented speed and scale. Due to the size of China, they will also matter globally. China is as large as the US, with four times the population. With double-digit annual economic growth in the past 40 years, China has become the world's second-largest economy in 2010. And the story of China being the world's largest emitter is a fairly recent one. When I was born, and you can see I'm not that old, the emissions in China were only half those of the US. It only became the largest about 15 years ago. In 2019, China represents 28 percent of global CO2 emissions. Its emissions are so significant today that going net-zero before 2060 could prevent 0.2 to 0.3-degrees of global warming and bring down 215 billion tons of CO2 emissions in the next 40 years. And that is equivalent to its cumulative emissions in the past half century.

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