The worst drought in China in 60 years has ravaged crops and triggered severe power shortages, which are expected to delay plans to reduce the country’s reliance on coal.
| Faced with crippling power cuts and the worst drought in modern history, China is shelving plans to reduce its reliance on coal, as cities and factories around the country struggle to keep the lights on and stay open.
Experts blame climate change for exacerbating the drought in the world’s most populous country, which now faces a severe energy shortage and decimated crops on top of existing economic hurdles, including COVID-19 lockdowns and a“There is nothing in world climatic history which is even minimally comparable to what is happening in China,” weather historian Maximiliano Herrera toldthis week.
After a coal shortage last year, which triggered widespread electricity curbs to factories throughout the country, China started to plan more coal power. China’s National Energy Administration said this week that 78.9 million tonnes of new coal mine capacity had been added since the beginning of this year, and raw coal output had increased by 1 per cent year-on-year.
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