A Green Olympics: A Test Case For China & Carbon Neutrality

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As the winter Olympics kick off this week in Beijing, the games hope to set a new first: being the first carbon-neutral winter Olympics.

For China — the second-largest economy and a major carbon emitter — it’s a way to show the millions of people who will be watching the games that it is serious about achieving its ambitious climate goals. The country aims to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060.

In the context of this progress, China wanted the Olympics — the biggest and most eye-catching international sports event — to achieve carbon neutrality, even though, as a country, it is still working toward that goal and other concerns such as the use of water to make snow and the clearing of trees to build parts of the Olympic village have raised environmental concerns.

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