Editorial Board
China and Japan Should Stop Promoting Coal
The Covid-19 slump is no reason to support projects that will make climate change worse.
Few nations can spare a thought for anything right now except battling the Covid-19 pandemic and mitigating its economic fallout. But it’s essential that their rescue efforts don’t add to an even bigger global danger: climate change. The governments of China and Japan, especially, need to keep this in mind.
By continuing to fund new coal projects at home and abroad, Asia’s two largest economies threaten to doom any chance of slowing global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.