For attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this image was on full display.
China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent ...
China’s carbon emissions sit at the center of the global climate story, and the timing of their peak matters for everyone.
Though China was once viewed as a climate villain, it now dominates global supply chains for solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles, with Chinese ...
The China and Climate primer series tracks and breaks down China’s engagement with climate and energy issues around the world. January coverage focused on a series of bilateral climate agreements, ...
China has managed something climate diplomats once treated as a distant hope: its carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for roughly a year and a half, even as the economy keeps expanding.
The planet’s third biggest polluter is adding wind and solar and electrifying transport at a faster pace than China did at ...
That dynamic could mean that China achieves its goal of reaching peak emissions before 2030, Beijing’s target date, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2021. Emissions from oil and gas could ...
NEW YORK — China pledged Wednesday to cut its world-leading levels of climate pollution by up to 10 percent during the next decade — one day after U.S. President Donald Trump urged global leaders ...
While climate policy in major industrialized democracies is increasingly treated as part of a culture war, China is treating it as an economic strategy. Beijing’s new pledge to cut greenhouse gas ...
There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.