You are not wrong. China also uses much more energy than the EU overall, and has a much larger population as it industrializes. China has more than x3 the population but is building 4.5 times solar and wind. Reducing the amount of consumer goods the EU imports from China which they need energy to make can have a big impact on China pollution.
Where are we putting all this CO2?
The EU as a whole stopped with coal quite a while ago (except poland, where it accounts for 40% of energy) and mostly relies on oil and gas. Around 69% all energy in the EU was produced from coal (14%), oil (32%) and gas (25%), with a 4.5% reduction in total energy due to the decrease of oil/gas from Russia. (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_statistics_-_an_overview; https://www.iea.org/regions/europe filtered by EU27 member countries)
61% of China’s energy was coal, 18% was oil, and 8% was gas in the same time period or 77% in total. (https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix)
In 2024, China added 356 GW of wind and solar capacity – 4.5 times the EUʼs.
China has ways to go in bringing down its coal, but it is far outpacing the EU when adding new solar and wind capacity.
"China also put up 357 gigawatts of solar and wind, a 45% and 18% increase, respectively, over what was operating at the end of 2023, according to China’s National Energy Administration. That’s akin to building 357 full-size nuclear plants in one year.
The installations meant China surpassed a goal, six years early, of having 1,200 gigawatts from renewables by 2030, a benchmark Chinese President Xi Jinping set five years ago."
Helpful context that their solar and wind dwarfs coal.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is part of the EU and 19km off the coast of Canada.
I never really took it as seriously as I should have. I genuinely gave up caring for the sake of ‘convenience’. I’ve seen the error of my ways since.
All unplugged and sitting in a box. It feels much more like a home now that I’m not being constantly listened to.
Its been wonderful purging all my american owned crap from my smart speakers to reddit. Looking forward to getting a linux desktop for the first time in nearly 10 years!
Organic maps is so good