CaixinAddressing 2020's other disaster: a rapidly warming planet
Less reliance on coal crucial for China to meet emission goals, experts say
Rescuers use a boat to evacuate people from a flooded neighborhood in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Aug. 18, 2020. © AP
DU CAICAI, KANG JIA and HAN WEI, Caixin
January 5, 2021 23:35 JST
There's no doubt that 2020 will have a special place in history, and not just for the COVID-19 pandemic that so far has killed more than 1.8 million people. It was also a year of extreme weather disasters that showed how climate change can be fatal for humanity.