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Cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2NMJBJ1.

Guest post: China’s ‘capacity payments’ boosted coal-plant revenue by up to 8%

At the start of 2024, China introduced a new system of “capacity payments” designed to help coal-fired power stations shift into a supporting rol... Read More

China Policy | Jun 12. 2025.
Workers install solar photovoltaic panels in Yinchuan, China.

分析:清洁能源首次助力中国碳排放下降

尽管中国电力需求快速增长,但清洁能源发电的增长首次使该国的二氧化碳(CO2)排放量出现下降。 Carbon Brief�... Read More

Translations | Jun 3. 2025.
A cross-section of Shenzhen's skyline.

Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?

Wandering the streets of Shenzhen, a city which has earned the title of China’s “first city of ‘new-energy vehicles’” (NEVs), you will not ... Read More

China Policy | Jun 3. 2025.
Coal miners in Shanxi Province, China.

Interview: What the people of China’s coal-rich Shanxi think about climate change

Shanxi province in northern China is the country’s largest coal producer, leaving its coal-reliant economy and workers particularly exposed to the ... Read More

China Policy | May 15. 2025.

Glossary: Decoding how China talks about energy and climate change

China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter as well as the fastest deployer and manufacturer of low-carbon technologies, has issued a series ... Read More

China Policy | Mar 27. 2025.
Cars to be dismantled parked at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling enterprise in Qingzhou city, Shandong province, China. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2SWEG60.

Q&A: How China’s ‘two new’ policy aims to help cut emissions

China’s central government listed “boosting consumption…and stimulating domestic demand” as its first “major task” for 2025, at the recen... Read More

China Policy | Mar 20. 2025.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders including seated at the at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Explainer: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2025?

China’s climate ambition at this year’s “two sessions” (两会), which ended on 11 March, was relatively subdued, with analysts expecting eco... Read More

China Policy | Mar 13. 2025.
Builders transfer wind turbine blades to a hoisting site at the construction site in Zhangye, China.

Explainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals

China’s solar and windfarms would no longer be guaranteed sales at a fixed price linked to coal benchmarks, under a new policy released by the cent... Read More

China Policy | Feb 20. 2025.
An automatic assembly line in Chongqing, southwest China.

Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024

Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan ($... Read More

China Policy | Feb 19. 2025.
Steel structure cooling tower construction site of the coal-fired unit expansion project, Gansu Power Plant Zhangye, China. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2WP7PMX.

China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024

A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joi... Read More

China Policy | Feb 13. 2025.
Prof Wang Can at COP29 in Baku.

The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Can

At COP29 in Baku, Carbon Brief spoke with Prof Wang Can, director of the department of environmental planning and management at Tsinghua University, ... Read More

China Policy | Feb 5. 2025.
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