Chinese Energy Involvement outside China (IMAGE)
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When global leaders converge on Paris Nov. 30 for the 2015 United Nations climate change conference, they should create guidelines and incentives for developing nations to cooperate with one another on lower-carbon energy projects, according to a report led by Princeton University researchers. Chinese firms in particular have recently accelerated the growth of coal power in developing nations, particularly in Asia, the researchers found. They conducted the first tally of power plants around the world involving Chinese companies. The graph above shows power plant capacity built with China-based firms (bottom axis), measured in gigawatts (GW), per global region (left axis). The colored bars correspond with a particular energy source with black representing coal. The researchers found that among the power capacities in Asian countries other than China that involve Chinese firms, 68 percent in operation (a), 77 percent under construction (b), and 76 percent in planning (c) burn coal.
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Image courtesy of Nature Climate Change; Hannam et al.
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