Beijing takes climate fight to the rooftops

Clean energy: Longi solar panels on the rooftop of a house in a village in Shaanxi province. One in five solar panels installed worldwide last year was mounted on a Chinese roof, putting households at the forefront of efforts to decarbonise a top emitter. — Bloomberg

BEIJING: On the rooftop of his home beside green onion and wheat fields in China’s Shaanxi province, Li Lifeng has installed dozens of solar panels that glisten in the winter sun.

For the past five years, he’s been among more than 2.4 million Chinese homeowners each doing their own small part to clean up the world’s biggest source of planet-warming carbon emissions.