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Wind and solar power station, Shandong Province, China.

Analysis: Only half of Chinese provinces finalise key ‘Document 136’ renewable rules

Only half of China’s provinces have finalised new rules for pricing wind and solar power, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Local governments ... Read More

China Policy | Oct 15. 2025.
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Webinar: Experts discuss what China's new climate pledge means for the world

Chinese president Xi Jinping, in an unexpected video address at the UN, announced last week that China will aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions 7-10%... Read More

Webinars | Sep 30. 2025.
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 2025

Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?

President Xi Jinping has personally pledged to cut China’s greenhouse gas emissions to 7-10% below peak levels by 2035, while “striving to do bet... Read More

China Policy | Sep 25. 2025.
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking at a BRICS summit.

Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change?

Amid a rapidly fracturing geopolitical order, there have been growing calls for China to “step into [the] leadership gap” left by the US on clima... Read More

China Policy | Sep 18. 2025.
People standing underneath umbrellas during a heatwave in Shanghai, China.

Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes

China has seen a series of temperature records broken this summer, as heatwaves have struck various regions across the country. Between mid-March ... Read More

China Policy | Sep 4. 2025.
The largest single shared energy storage power station in China in Delingha City, Qinghai Province.

Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025

Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend th... Read More

China Policy | Aug 21. 2025.
A worker inspects facilites at a coal-fired power plant in Wuhan, central China.

Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop

Last year, China started construction on an estimated 95 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity, enough to power the entire UK twice over. It a... Read More

China Policy | Aug 12. 2025.
Builders working at a wind farm in Zhangye China.

Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China

China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy growth, making it essential to global climate eff... Read More

Guest posts | Aug 7. 2025.
Container ship on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany.

Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%

China’s exports of clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are increasingly helping to cut emissions in oth... Read More

China energy | Jul 22. 2025.
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.
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