China Should Avoid Extreme Measures to Achieve Carbon Goals: Daily

Chinese authorities should avoid taking the extreme measure of forcibly cutting electricity supply to achieving unrealistic emission-reduction goals while sacrificing businesses' normal operations, which can hurt the hard earned economic recovery, the Economic Daily said in an editorial. The forced electricity outage in China's many regions including the Northeast highlighted the difficulty of choosing meeting its carbon-neutral goals and energy-powered economic growth, the newspaper said. The government should use consistent and predicable policies to curb excess consumption and pollution while striving to meet businesses' energy needs, it said.