China’s CO2 Emissions From Coal-To-Chemical Industry Set To Soar
A Chinese boy cycles past a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China.
China’s coal-to-chemical industry could produce CO2 emissions in excess of 400 million tons a year by the end of the decade — a more than fourfold increase from the 90 million emitted in 2015.
Coal-to-chemical projects, which convert coal to other chemical properties, including oil and gas, are extremely carbon intensive, accounting for roughly 3% of the country’s total CO2 emissions in 2012.
