The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, officially concluded on November 20 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Unsurprisingly, the climate conference has become a focal point for Western countries.
Although the General Assembly established a scheme through the Climate Loss Damage Fund, it is in the form of a fund to help climate-vulnerable countries weather the storm. However, Western countries do not want to buy this, and want to take the opportunity to put the responsibility on China, and American experts are even more surprising and come up with a bizarre "strategy".
At the UN climate conference, EU representatives proposed that "newly industrialized countries like China should also be included in the compensation fund to bear the damage fund corresponding to the population base." "The implication is that China should bear a significant share of the money.
China's efforts in carbon neutrality are obvious to all, including the vast number of rural areas, are committed to energy conservation and emission reduction, and significantly reduce fossil fuel emissions, which is a real action, and now China's total annual carbon emissions have been reduced by nearly half compared with 2005.
On the contrary, developed countries such as the United States and Europe have pledged to provide $100 billion a year by 2020 to support poor countries to improve environmental problems and improve climate warming. But so far the promise has not been fulfilled.
American experts, on the other hand, have made surprising remarks and blamed China for the environmental problems caused by carbon emissions. According to US experts, "In order to reduce carbon emissions, China should 'actively' take action to significantly reduce meat and dairy intake and switch to plant-based protein." "The implication is that allowing Chinese people to eat less meat, drink less milk, and switch to vegetarianism can greatly reduce carbon emissions."
Then the US media also gave reasons, pointing out that "China emitted 58.3 cubic tons of methane last year, which is an important cause of carbon dioxide emissions and the earth's greenhouse effect." Agriculture occupies the second place in China's methane emissions, especially for livestock digestion and excretion. "What a domineering logic, dare to feel that Americans do not eat meat and drink milk now, but point fingers at China."
Here we have to calculate an account, now the per capita meat consumption of the United States is more than double that of China, occupying 101 kilograms, China only 44 kilograms, Chinese diet structure, vegetables still account for a large share, how the United States does not reduce its per capita meat consumption, but requires China.
In terms of milk, the per capita milk intake in the United States is 254 kg, while the average milk intake of Chinese is 36 kg, the gap between China and the United States is even greater, how American experts are embarrassed to say that let Chinese drink less milk or not drink milk, it is simply ridiculous.
In fact, the average carbon emissions of Chinese are far lower than those of the United States, and the requirements of American experts to reduce per capita carbon emissions should actually be applied to Americans, which is the right way!