UN Lauds China’s Efforts to Transition to Renewable Energy
Renewable energy buildout in China has made exceptional contributions to worldwide climate action, United Nations Environment Program leadership says. Massively expanded manufacturing scale in the Asian economic powerhouse has slashed clean technology prices and broadened access globally, particularly across developing regions. Inger Andersen, serving as both UNEP's executive director and a UN Under-Secretary-General, discussed these developments with China Daily ahead of the seventh Environment Assembly gathering that opened Monday in Nairobi. She described installation growth rates as moving at an extraordinary clip. Plans call for reaching 3,600 gigawatts of wind and solar generation by 2035, representing a sixfold increase from…
