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Four research teams powering China’s net-zero energy goal

Energy researchers are helping to pivot the country to carbon-neutral power by 2060, using both large and small-scale projects.
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  1. Sarah O’Meara

    1. Sarah O’Meara is a freelance journalist in London.

  2. Yvaine Ye

    1. Yvaine Ye is a science journalist in Shanghai, China.

In 2020, China announced an ambitious plan to reduce its carbon emissions — by 2060, 80% of its total energy mix will come from non-fossil-fuel sources. This will be crucial to help minimize future climate warming, because more than one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions are currently generated by China.

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Nature 603, S41-S43 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00801-4

This article is part of Nature Spotlight on China’s net-zero ambitions, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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