China’s revised NDC prompts calls for tougher emission goals

October 28, 2021
China’s recently revised national determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris climate agreement offers a “modest improvement” to its prior goals for reducing greenhouse gases, according to an environmental group that is pushing the world’s largest emitter to set much more ambitious near-term goals. “For China to get on a pathway to reach its 2060 carbon neutrality goal it is critical for the country to further strengthen its new near-term targets and put in place measures to reach them,” says the...


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