China's green push may cut global fossil fuel use by 2030: Think-tank

The stage may be set for the world's use of fossil fuels to begin dropping in about five years' time, thanks to China's rapid adoption of renewables and its increasing reliance on electricity, clean energy think-tank Ember said in a report on Sept 9.

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The researchers identified how fossil fuel consumption could be pressured into long-term decline through the scale and pace of China's own green transition and its dominant role in exporting clean energy to other countries.

In 2023, one-quarter of emerging countries had leapfrogged the United States in terms of the electrification of their economies, helped by the availability of cheap Chinese clean-tech, according to Ember.