I do, and I already did answer it. I can elaborate if you want, it's pretty simple really.
CO2 emissions are caused predominantly by burning oil, gas and coal. There's also cement production, but it's a small percentage of overall emissions.
National emissions are actually calculated based on national consumption of oil, gas and coal, cement production, etc.
In order to reduce emissions a country *must* start burning less oil, gas and/or coal. It literally doesn't matter if they cover all their mountains with solar panels. As long as they burn fossil fuels they will cause emissions.
Coal is the easiest to replace, because gas power plants are a drop-in replacement for coal power plants. That's what you see happening in countries like Germany, the UK or the US. I went into more detail about it here: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/110969056889840101
Oil is much harder to replace, because it not only is very energy dense and used in all kinds of machinery, but it is also an important input to many products like plastics, paints, etc. You can learn more about that here: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/110714282565015001
Now replacing gas power plants with solar+wind is kind of possible, but not completely without either a gigantic battery storage or keeping the gas plant on stand-by.
Natural gas is also important for production of fertilizers among other stuff.
One more note here: all of that is just *replacing* existing energy infrastructure.
The real crux of the problem is that global energy demand keeps going up. That is understandable, as developing nations want to improve their standards of living and most people on Earth want to climb the ladder, no matter how high they are already.
A real solution to this problem would be for rich and upper-middle income nations (and that includes China) to undergo intentional #degrowth of their economies. Modern urban lifestyle is very wasteful, while millions of people in Africa don't have access to electricity or clean cooking, while simultaneously being the most affected by #ClimateChange.
A solution to the #ClimateCrisis necessarily requires addressing #inequality, both between nations and within them.
But good luck convincing people or their leaders to stop growing the economy and pursuing their nationalistic ambitions.
Enough said I don't have much hope humanity will solve the #ClimateCrisis.
And the idea that #China of all places is a country that does most to solve the problem is laughable.
It's like saying you're hopeful about Shell, because they started building EV charging stations. Cool and all, but are they pulling less fossils from the ground?
@jackofalltrades @WahbAllat @AlfredJH I don't think that any strategy that involves asking people to reduce their standard of living is going to be viable unfortunately.
The only realistic option we have now is to do geoengineering like cloud seeding to buy more time to build out clean energy infrastructure.
However, the point I keep coming back to here is that the infrastructure needs to be built, and China is building it at scale.
@yogthos @jackofalltrades @WahbAllat@mas.to @AlfredJH
Meanwhile here in the west a university is offering a degree in influencing, not knocking that but what we NEED is people studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths so we can research, develop and build our OWN solutions.
