This is bad news for REs in many countries.

With GHGs going up with more ICEVs, CPPs and NGPPs people will demand more REs and electrified vehicles.

Don't worry about it, D.  That car guy doesn't know a thing about battery chemistry.  He thinks they will all need (scarce) cobalt, and that's simply not true.  A bunch of chemistries in use today are cobalt-free.

Worse comes to worst, everything goes PHEV instead and you carry 10 kWh of battery which costs maybe $1500 instead of the $25000 he thinks it might cost.  $1500 for a 65%-80% solution is close enough for now, isn't it?

Lad, the fossil fuel DEMOCRATS are as much or more of a power in the USA.  The daughter of "green" governor Brown of Commiefornia sits on the board of natural gas company Sempra.

I keep hearing how Germany has missed it's goal of 40% lower emissions but the fact is that Germany has lowered emissions vis a vis 1990 levels by more than 30%, they are running a heavily industrialized nation at below 10t of CO2 per capita. That is an achievement some countries are very far from.

As for coal, the use of it has actually been dropping in the last decades. During the 90s, coal was the predominant electricity generator:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

Gross power consumption portrays this very nicely. If the country had not decided to shutter nuclear plants prematurely, they would have likely been very close to their 40% target.

The world is moving toward clean energy.
In 100 yrs, our energy generation will be fine.
In geological time frames, 100 yrs is nothing.
It would be ironic if we miss the tipping point by a mere 100 yrs and doom us all.
Let us hope we haven't just missed it by 100 yrs.
Remember the opposite as well - what if we were to have 5000 ft tall glaciers occupying all of canada down to Iowa for 1,000,000 yrs.
That would be hard to deal with too.

Fossil fuels (coal, Oil and NG) workers and farmers have very strong lobbies and are excessively important, specially in democracies during election years.

To reduce pollution and GHGs we may have to travel less, eat less, be more selective in what we eat, reduce waste and costly demonstrations.

New GREE** heat pumps with SEER 33+ effective to -30C are great to reduce NG-Oil and Electricity used for heating while reducing pollution and GHGs.

Of course, better building codes, would also do a lot to reduce pollution and GHGs while reducing damages during severe storms.

China** creates less pollution and GHGs per capita than USA and/or Germany and many other industrial countries..

Sooner or latter we will have to admit that people living in USA, Canada, NZ, Australia and a few countries in EU and Asia consume and pollute too much and are responsible for climate changes and progressive destruction of the environment. There are many better ways.

Our badly designed and constructed houses cannot resist many of the new-recent storms, specially within 100 Km from ocean shores. By exception, my sister's house on the East coast of Florida has gone through 10+ storms during the last 40+ years without any damages. The super heavy, huge thick roof concrete tiles never moved and windows/doors are well protected with appropriate shutters. On the other hand, they are still driving a huge V-8 polluting Cadillac.

China's imperative right now is clean air.  There is lower-hanging fruit than electric generation.

China is embarking on a build-out of swimming-pool nuclear reactors for district heating.  It is a faster road to elimination of air pollution from coal combustion.  2 year build time for 400 MW(th).

400 MW(th) is about 6900 tons of water per hour heated from 40°C to 90°C.  The coal-fired stoves it will be replacing are eerily similar to the ones used in England at the time of the deadly London smogs.  They are much dirtier than power plants and almost impossible to clean up.

If a dwelling requires a nominal 15,000 BTU/hr of heat, one 400 MW(th) reactor will heat around 90,000 dwellings.  As it uses unpressurized coolant it is meltdown-proof.  If you are trying to make a big difference in people's lives in a hurry to maintain your political legitimacy (the Mandate of Heaven), this is definitely a high priority.