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