China’s Belt and Road Initiative Could Drive Warming to 2.7 Degrees

Yale e360
Sep 4, 2019, 4:50 pm194 pts
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a multi-trillion-dollar investment strategy aimed at boosting infrastructure development around the globe, will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions and drive global warming past 2 degrees Celsius unless efforts are made to decarbonize the projects being funded,…

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