Thursday, December 10, 2020

China Seeks Carbon Neutral Environment at Home But Pushes Dirty Coal Plants in Africa

 CNN Business posted on 10 December 2020 a story titled "Activists Are Fighting for a Renewable Future in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chinese Coal Projects Threaten to Dirty Those Plans" by Eoin McSweeney.

Chinese companies continue to push the construction of coal power plants in Africa despite objections from environmentalists and Xi Jinping's call early this year for green development and carbon neutrality in China by 2060.  African governments have been eager to move forward with cheap, dirty energy projects that only Chinese banks will finance.