26/09/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 26 September in Beijing, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevičius, called for China to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality “by 2050”, i.e. 10 years earlier than envisaged, reported AFP. In his view, “the first way to achieve this is to phase out fossil fuels, starting with coal”, he added at the end of a five-day visit to the Asian country. On the same day, the International Energy Agency declared that China would have to bring forward its carbon neutrality target to 2050, and rich countries to 2045, in order to stay within the Paris Climate Agreement (see other news). (MB)