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EU official sees ‘contradiction’ between China’s climate goals, coal plants
3 years agoEuropean Commission Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans delivers a speech about climate change to students at Tsinghua University in Beijing on July 3, 2023. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
A top EU climate official said Monday there is a "contradiction" between China's ambitious goals to combat global warming and its continued building of coal-fired power plants.