Since September, when President Xi Jinping committed China to carbon neutrality by 2060 , three fulcrums have emerged in its climate strategy. Last year, China commissioned 38.4 gigawatts of new coal plants, more than three times the capacity commissioned in the rest of the world. It also initiated 73.5GW of new coal plant proposals – more than five times the capacity proposed across the rest of the world – and approved more than three times the domestic coal power expansion permitted in 2019.