22/09/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 21 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly that his country will not build new coal-fired power plants abroad. He did not, however, give a timetable for ending the financing of coal abroad. Calling the announcement, a “positive signal” ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, Belinda Schäpe, a climate diplomacy researcher for EU-China relations at the E3G think tank, nevertheless recalled...