China’s Xi Commits to Stop Building Coal Plants Abroad

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday explained Beijing would halt making coal-fired electrical power plants abroad, in a public commitment to redirect the country’s enormous engineering market absent from adding to a supply of world air pollution.

Beijing has faced stress from the U.S., the European Union and environmental teams for owning ongoing to finance and build coal-fired electrical power plants in many establishing international locations, even as it explained it would slice greenhouse emissions at property.