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Well switching from one kind of FF to another can reduce emissions in some cases but I don't have the numbers for coal production with me (I assume nat gas is a bit cleaner, but don't know about total GHG emissions for 1 ton of steel). I've seen countless people saying China this and China that and if China does this and that, we also should to remain competitive, etc. Countless. The argument comes over and over and over.The only alternative to coke is a process that uses Natural Gas and not chemicals. Now that is just switching fossil fuels. We could use hydrogen at a much, much higher cost and China makes more steel and could care less.
What I'm not seeing is ideas as to how to bring China to reduce their emissions. They do manufacture much of our stuff after all. If we (many countries) export manufacturing to China, then of course their emissions will keep increasing.
Also, there's the issue of comparing a 330M pop country with a 1.4B pop country. Are we comparing total emissions or per capita emissions. Are we looking to make emissions equal per person, equal per country, different per person, different per country, and how different.
As far as I can tell, those who advocate to reduce emissions aren't pointing to one country in particular, what they want is for the total number to be less and they act wherever they can.
China also leads in solar and batteries. A higher population means they make more of everything, so comparing ratios make the most sense to me.