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Carbon Goals

A guiding document on China’s work to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals were unveiled on October 23, laying out key specific targets and measures for upcoming decades.

According to the document, before 2030, China’s carbon dioxide emissions will peak, stabilize and then decline, and before 2060, China will be carbon neutral and will have established a green, low-carbon and circular economy.

The document, which was jointly released by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, stated that the nation will meet these goals by gradually increasing the share of

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