{"id":12344,"date":"2019-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/despite-damning-un-climate-report-china-refuses-to-make-changes-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:00:00","slug":"despite-damning-un-climate-report-china-refuses-to-make-changes-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/despite-damning-un-climate-report-china-refuses-to-make-changes-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite damning UN climate report, China refuses to make changes in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"text-box wp-block-list\"><li>China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping seeks to present the People\u2019s Republic of \nChina (PRC) as an \u201cecological civilization\u201d with Tibet as a key element.\n  But China\u2019s policies on the Tibetan Plateau, which have so far \nreceived little attention globally, exacerbate the detrimental impacts \ndetailed in the latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental \nPanel on Climate Change (IPCC). For example, despite a looming water \ncrisis, China is proceeding with a massive expansion of hydro dams and \npower grids on the rivers of Tibet.<\/li><li>The IPCC report, which offers the most authoritative statement on \nthe critical issues facing the planet, was released on Sept. 25, 2019 as\n world leaders met at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. During \nthe summit, China, the world\u2019s largest greenhouse gas emitter, failed to\n make any concrete commitments to reduce its emissions, the main step \nrequired of all governments in keeping with the 2018 IPCC report on what\n is needed to prevent runaway climate change from occurring once \ntemperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees C.<\/li><li>China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/why-tibet\/reciprocity\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restrictions on access to Tibet<\/a>\n mean that international scientists are rarely able to make independent,\n on-the-ground investigations of impacts or obtain comprehensive \nhydrological data and details of the complex interplay between climate \nand glacial loss, among other critical issues. Far less research is \npossible on the changing climate of Tibet, the world\u2019s Third Pole, than \non the other two poles.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is part two of a two-part report. <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/new-un-report-warns-of-dire-risks-from-tibet-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read part one, \u201cNew UN report warns of dire risks from Tibet climate change.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China refuses to commit on climate pledges<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the UN Climate Action Summit earlier this month, UN  Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres invited leaders to make new  commitments to cut their emissions, stop building coal plants and end  fossil fuel subsidies. But none of the large polluters, particularly  China, met the UN secretary-general\u2019s call to raise their climate  pledges. \u201cChina\u2019s statement was potentially the most consequential. It  remains up to developed countries to lead, the country said,\u201d reported  Karl Mathiesen of Climate Home News. \u201cIt\u2019s also a poke in the eye for  the UN, which had flagged its confidence that China would front up with  new ambition.\u201d<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the global climate change conference in Paris in 2015, China \nhas made no specific commitments to reduce emissions, other than a \nproposal to start to do so in 2030. But, according to the IPCC, this is \nwhen emission reductions need to be completed, not beginning, if the \nplanet is to avoid even further uncontrollable temperature increases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is the world\u2019s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and its actions  both domestically and abroad have an enormous impact on global  greenhouse gas emissions. Increased fossil-fuel consumption drove an  estimated 2.3 percent increase in Chinese CO2 emissions in 2018. The  IPCC Special Report Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C found that coal needs to  exit the power sector by 2050 globally if warming is to be limited to  this level, and efforts by China to reduce coal in the next few years  will be critical to this. But China started construction on 28 gigawatts  of new coal-fired power capacity in 2018 after a previous construction  ban was lifted.<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of China\u2019s 50 biggest cities, Xining in Qinghai province now ranks as  one of the highest emitters of carbon dioxide, due almost entirely to  the heavy industries surrounding Xining that process Tibetan minerals,  oil and gas with little effective regulation.<sup>[3]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exclusion of Tibetan pastoralists heightens climate change vulnerability<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, Tibetan pastoralists, who have skillfully managed the \nprecarious, rugged high altitude environment for centuries, now face the\n devastating implications of climate change compounded by the negative \nimpact of Chinese policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Chinese government blames Tibetan nomads for the  degradation of Tibet\u2019s vast grasslands, the IPCC and experts around the  world\u2014including in China\u2014disagree, reflecting a scientific consensus  that mass removal of pastoralists from their land is extremely damaging  because indigenous stewardship and herd mobility are essential to both  the health of rangelands and the mitigation of climate change. The  IPCC\u2019s report on \u201cClimate Change and the Land,\u201d released Aug. 8, 2019,  notes that China\u2019s policies in Tibet have increased the vulnerability of  Tibetan nomadic herders to climate change.<sup>[4]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlighting the importance of local and indigenous knowledge, the  IPCC report released in September gives the example of the people of  Ladakh\u2014a region in India that borders Tibet\u2014creating ice stupas to be  available as ice melt in spring when young crops need watering well  before the summer monsoon arrives.<sup>[5]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Tibet, in contrast, China\u2019s policies exclude rather than involve \nthe knowledge of pastoralists in helping to rehabilitate degrading \nareas, contrary to worldwide experience in community-based landscape \nrestoration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dangerous implications of glacial runoff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most alarming aspects of the new IPCC report is the issue  of runoff from melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. The report  states: \u201cAt first, glacier runoff increases because the glacier melts  faster and more water flows downhill from the glacier. However, there  will be a turning point after several years or decades, often called  \u2018peak water,\u2019 after which glacier runoff and hence its contribution to  river flow downstream will decline. Peak water runoff from glaciers can  exceed the amount of initial yearly runoff by 50 percent or more.\u201d The  IPCC notes that: \u201cThis excess water can be used in different ways, such  as for hydropower or irrigation.\u201d<sup>[6]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IPCC estimates that with regard to the high plateau, \u201cpeak water\u201d  will come as soon as the middle of this century, in 30 years\u2019 time.<sup>[7]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel Lafitte, an expert on Tibet\u2019s environment, explains that China receives dividends from Tibet\u2019s water runoff.<sup>[8]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He writes, \u201cThat dividend shows up not in the corporate bottom line  but politically, in China\u2019s program to depopulate the Tibetan highlands,  to clear out the pasture users between the glaciers and the lowlands.  Guaranteeing water supply is officially the main driver of the policy of  closing pastures to grow more grass and protect water supply, a policy  over the past two decades that has made redundant hundreds of thousands  of skilled pastoralists in the river catchments below the glaciers but  above the Chinese industrial consumers.\u201d<sup>[9]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tibetan Plateau is regarded by scientists as the most important \nglacial region outside of the Arctic and Antarctic and is also the \nsource of the earth\u2019s eight largest river systems. Despite the dangers \nto this fragile, high-altitude ecosystem and a looming water crisis \nhighlighted by the IPCC, China earlier this year announced a massive \nexpansion of hydro dams and power grids on the rivers of Tibet, \nespecially on the Drichu (Chinese: Yangtze) and its tributaries, to \nimpound, divert and extract more water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further dams along the Yarlung Tsangpo (called Brahmaputra in India),  the Machu (Eng: Yellow River, Ch: Huanghe) and the Gyalmo Ngulchu (Eng:  Salween, Ch: Nujiang) rivers<sup>[10]<\/sup>  are either under construction or in planning, along with a rail and  road expressway. Images of the locations monitored by the International  Campaign for Tibet reveal the extent of road and infrastructure  construction required to transport heavy equipment into the sites,  demonstrating that the damage done by dams is not limited to the rivers,  but also affects the entire landscape. Until now, these areas were  among the least disturbed habitats on earth.<sup>[11]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"footnote wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Footnotes:<\/strong><br> <strong>[1]<\/strong> Climate Home News, September 23, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/09\/23\/un-climate-action-summit-live\/\">https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/09\/23\/un-climate-action-summit-live\/<\/a>.<br> <strong>[2]<\/strong>  Climate Action Tracker, updated September 19, 2019,  https:\/\/climateactiontracker.org\/countries\/china\/ The same source  stated: \u201cChina is simultaneously, and almost paradoxically, the world\u2019s  largest consumer of coal and the largest solar technology manufacturer,  and the choice it makes between the technology of the past versus the  future will have a lasting effect on the world\u2019s ability to limit  warming to 1.5oC.\u201d<br> <strong>[3]<\/strong>  Haikun Wang, Xi Lu, Y Deng, Yaoguang Sun, Chris P.Nielsen, Ge Zhu,  Yifan Liu, Maoliang Bu, Jun Bi and Michael B McElroy, \u2018China\u2019s CO2 peak  before 2030 implied from characteristics and growth of cities\u2019, Nature  Sustainability, July 29, 2019, 748-754  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41893-019-0339-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41893-019-0339-6<\/a><br> <strong>[4]<\/strong>  International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Chinese policies increase  risk of climate emergency for Tibetan nomads, UN panel says\u2019, August 12,  2019,  <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/chinese-policies-increase-risk-of-climate-emergency-for-tibetan-nomads-un-panel-says\/\">https:\/\/savetibet.org\/chinese-policies-increase-risk-of-climate-emergency-for-tibetan-nomads-un-panel-says\/<\/a>.<br> <strong>[5]<\/strong>  The IPCC report states: \u201cTo cope with seasonal water scarcity at  critical times for irrigation, villagers in the region have developed  four types of artificial ice reservoirs: basins, cascades, diversions  and a form known locally as ice stupas. All these types of ice  reservoirs capture water in the autumn and winter, allowing it to  freeze, and hold it until spring, when it melts and flows down to fields  (Clouse et al., 2017; Nusser et al., 2018). In this way, they retain a  previously unused portion of the annual flow and facilitate its use to  supplement the decreased flow in the following spring (Vince, 2009;  Shaheen, 2016). Frozen basins are formed from water which is conveyed  across a slope through channels and check dams to shaded surface  depressions near the villages. Cascades and diversions direct water to  pass over stone walls, slowing its movement and allowing it to freeze.  Ice stupas direct water through pipes into fountains, where it freezes  into conical shapes (Box 2.3 Figure 1). These techniques use local  materials and draw on Local Knowledge (N\u00fcsser and Baghel, 2016).\u201d 2-34,  \u2018Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate\u2019,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/srocc\/home\/\">https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/srocc\/home\/<\/a> The IPCC approved and accepted Special  Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate at its 51st  Session held on 20 \u2013 23 September 2019.<br> <strong>[6]<\/strong> IPCC report as cited above, 2-28.<br> <strong>[7]<\/strong>  IPCC report as cited above, 2-26, \u201cLocal and regional-scale projections  in High Mountain Asia [\u2026] suggest that peak water will generally be  reached before or around the middle of the century.\u201d<br> <strong>[8]<\/strong> Gabriel Lafitte blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rukor.org\">www.rukor.org<\/a>.<br> <strong>[9]<\/strong> Ibid<br> <strong>[10]<\/strong>  International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Damming Tibet\u2019s Rivers\u2019,  <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/damming-tibets-rivers-new-threats-to-tibetan-area-under-unesco-protection\/\">https:\/\/savetibet.org\/damming-tibets-rivers-new-threats-to-tibetan-area-under-unesco-protection\/<\/a>.<br> <strong>[11]<\/strong>  Also see International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Blue Gold from the  highest plateau: Tibet\u2019s water and global climate change\u2019, May, 2015,  <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ICT-Water-Report-2015.pdf\">https:\/\/savetibet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ICT-Water-Report-2015.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping seeks to present the People\u2019s Republic of China as an \u201cecological civilization\u201d with Tibet as a key element. 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