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