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Senators and witnesses flag China’s overseas coal projects and supply-chain human-rights risks
Summary
Committee members raised concerns that China’s financing of coal plants abroad and links between clean-technology supply chains and forced labor complicate global climate goals; witnesses urged holding China accountable and establishing procurement standards and diversified supply chains.
Sen. Mitt Romney pressed witnesses on whether President Xi’s pledges to peak emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060 align with China’s continuing construction of coal plants at home and abroad.
Mr. Broadgum (State Department) told the committee ‘‘we are gonna be looking at what Beijing does, and not what it says it will do,’’ arguing that many pledges…
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