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China's carbon emissions growing rapidly with 1,000 coal based power plants

China's coal power station fleet grew five-fold between 2000 and 2020, and now accounts for almost half the world's consumption 'more than three times its closest rival, the US. It is said to have 1,080 separate plants with a total capacity last year of 1,005 gigawatts ' and is building more.

Britain, in contrast, has just four coal-fuelled plants left, with a joint output of 5.4 gigawatts. This week, in his apocalyptic climate change speech to the United Nations, Boris Johnson urged China, by far the world's worst emitter of greenhouse gases, producing as much as 28 per cent of the global total � to end its domestic use of coal, Daily Mail reported.