China, with an 18% share of the global population, uses 26% of the world’s primary energy and emits 33% of the world’s energy-related CO2. The energy transition unfolding in the country isn’t merely a national affair as its ramifications echo globally, explains Mahnaz Hadizadeh, a researcher for consultancy DNV.
This means literally nothing, but when I cropped the image to ~2023 and presented it to Claude, then asked it to extrapolate, it was even more generous.