Welcome to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
We are a new independent research organisation focused on revealing the trends, causes, and health impacts, as well as the solutions to air pollution.
Health-harming pollutants from burning fossil fuels are responsible for at least 3 million air pollution deaths per year. However, rapid advances in modern, clean energy technologies are a key opportunity to improve air quality and protect public health.
We use scientific data, research and evidence to support the efforts of governments, companies and campaigning organizations worldwide in their efforts to move towards clean energy and clean air. We believe that effective research and communication are the key to successful policies, investment decisions and advocacy efforts.
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Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon
China’s main energy-consuming and producing provinces are directing the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects, analysis of spending plans reveals. If the investments go ahead, they would exceed spending plans for low-carbon energy threefold. The findings are from our new analysis of the “major project lists” for eight Chinese provinces, […]
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Huge #coal covid-recovery investment across 8 Chinese provinces, finds @CREACleanAir @laurimyllyvirta
Coal to chemical: 562bn RMB
Coal transport: 461bn RMB
Power & heat: 170bn RMB
Mining: 34bn RMB
Coking: 14bn RMB
= 1241bn RMB, approx $182bn USD
Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon
Our findings suggest China is focusing its post-Covid recovery on high-carbon energy and infrastructure, as it did after the 2008-9 global financial c...
www.carbonbrief.org
Our new research looking at government "major project lists" in 8 largest energy producing and consuming provinces shows the scale of the shift needed to put China on path to carbon neutrality - enormous ongoing investment in fossil fuels, dwarfing clean energy three to one. https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1308797247367282688
Amid excitement over China's new pledge to go carbon neutral by 2060, here's some timely analysis by @laurimyllyvirta showing fossil fuel stimulus plans in country's major provinces amount to hundreds of billions of $$ and outweigh low-carbon threefold…
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-covid-stimulus-plans-for-fossil-fuels-three-times-larger-than-low-carbon
#China's 2060 #climate pledge: long-awaited breakthrough or sugar-coating another decade of rising emissions? Via @CREACleanAir @laurimyllyvirta
China's 2060 climate pledge: long-awaited breakthrough or sugar-coating another decade of rising emissions? - Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
In the past couple of weeks, the Chinese government has signalled plans to upgrade climate targets and "make a bigger contribution" to the global clim...
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