Don't forget about outsourcing loads of your production to China, and then claiming your own country is about to meet its carbon goals. Works for Europe.
EU is looking to impose carbon border fees.
The looming threat of those is why China has introduced Carbon fees to their internal market.
If Turkmenistan is selling its fossil fuel to China then that GHG cost can be charged against Chinese goods being exported to EU.
Which gives China a financial incentive to lean on Turkmenistan to fix their leaks.
(Also WorldInData has figures for GHG with and without imports/exports. It generally doesn't change the big picture too much.)
In the U.S. on the other hand, Chevy just announced they're going to stop production of the Bolt so they can focus on electric trucks.
I wish we had countries with efficient, clean production practices building small EVs using scalable production techniques like China, but give the choice between BYD's approach and that of your average US automakers, I think BYD's approach is better. (Maybe South Korea is a contender for being a legitimate competitor to China. I don't think they've done much with LFP batteries as far as I know, but it looks like LG chem is working on LFP plants though so maybe that'll change.)
NMC will remain dominant in high end, performance models but LFP will be the mainstream.
I agree LFPs are currently the right chemistry for mass-production vehicles. NMC is for luxury cars, or use cases with special requirements (e.g. better cold weather performance).
I expect LFP will eventually be superseded by some other technology. Though it's possible they'le be superseded by something that's a direct improvement on LFP rather than something completely new.
https://insideevs.com/news/628303/ev-battery-lfp-share-septe...
Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions?
>> There’s not only significant variability in how much CO2 countries emit across the world today. There are also large differences in how much each has emitted in the past. Who has contributed most to global CO2 since 1750?
https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
The graph at the top of the article makes it clear that, historically, the regions that have contributed the most to climate change (to make it plain: the countries directly responsible for it) are the US and the EU countries. The US alone has contributed as much CO2 as all Asian countries together.
That doesn't mean Asia will suffer less than anyone else from a changing climate, but pointing the finger at China as the biggest polluter is kind of missing the point, and probably an attempt to deflect responsibility to avoid doing what must be done (edit: not by you, obviously).
If you want to cook it because it's otherwise unfair to China, fine, it's your funeral too.
Do you understand that everyone around the world remembers how western countries pioneered globalization and pushed all the nasty production to third-world countries, so that they don't get their white hand dirty?
You don't get to greenwash yourselves just because stuff you consume gets produced somewhere else, got it?
But hey, I have an idea! If you insist on being no less virtuous then Mother Teresa, how about this proposal: we shut down all of the outsourced production for US and Europe. Just think of it, this would be a huge optimization: it's the smallest part of the world that consumes the most.
And people there are clearly eager to be heroes and show us how to take care of climate - let's help them finally put their money where their mouth is. It's a win-win!
Are you hearing voices? Stop assuming dichotomy and making up stuff every time someone criticizes you on practical specific things.
> western countries
> globalization
> all the nasty production
> third-world countries
> white hand
> greenwash
> stuff
> somewhere else
Practical of specific is which one of those? Your words, not mine.
It's not perfect, every situation is a bit different, but China is such a dirty outlier compared with other major economies and the world that you can't handwave it away - https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions...
Producing something in China versus most other places means emitting more carbon.
But it doesn’t matter regardless because any attempt to impose authoritarian climate measures on China will send the West into economic crisis, one way or another.
China looks terrible compared to almost all other significant economies. When fundamentals like electricity production are much dirtier, you don't need to look much further downstream.
> But it doesn’t matter regardless
What "doesn't matter"?
> because any attempt to impose authoritarian climate measures on China will send the West into economic crisis, one way or another.
International terms of trade can not be "authoritarian", by definition. That's an ironic misunderstanding: if you want authoritarian look no further than the communist dictatorship ruling the country.
China's per-capita emissions aren't even great. Worse than many advanced economies.
It's hypocritical of Americans to complain about China's emissions, while spewing almost twice as much per person.
It's disingenuous to complain that per capita emissions are irrelevant, as if every 8 Americans deserve to emit as much as fourteen Chinese people. That's the actual ratio.
And all this bluster, while China exports nearly twice as many manufactured goods.
If we're talking about countries environmental cost, then we'll have to talk about America's role sabotaging climate accords, or selling the world on PFAs, or the petrodollar, or our relationship with dictators that have lots of oil, or invading countries and then securing the oil fields within days, and so on, etc.
Let's try to keep our feet on the ground here, even if we've no leg to stand on.
While we're off on this wild tangent though, do you feel the same way about the hypocrisy of the ruling class. Do you think Barack Obama, Al Gore, Bill Gates, et al have "no right to complain" about emissions generated by us commoners?
Would that be a reasonable response for everybody, whenever a politician or elite says emissions need to be reduced? Stamp their feet and say no, because we deserve to emit as much as you do?
So tired of western folk (as usual) being so full of themselves only because they had pushed almost all of the nasty production outside of their countries and get to flex stats how supposedly good they are.
How about instead we maybe count individual carbon footprint by the consumption? (Oops)