China has kept promise to stop funding overseas coal, but loopholes helping coal expand
TimesLive | 27.09.2026 00:14
Addressing the UN General Assembly in 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to stop funding overseas coal power plants in an effort to help curb climate change. Five years later, as the assembly meets this week, the world’s climate commitments are dangerously offtrack, and the phase down of coal is inching along.
