Shenzhen, Zhenjiang, Xiamen and Nanchang – approached developing low-carbon policies over the course of almost a decade ...

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas. The ...

The U.S. has become a "side character" in the global story of renewable energy, experts say. China dominates the sector, with ...

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 ...

China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming gases, has for the first time committed to an absolute target to cut its emissions. In a recording played to the UN in New York, President Xi ...

Beijing's policy changes on renewables pricing and an uptick in fossil fuel projects could cancel out clean energy gains and ...

When activist plaintiffs weaponize public-nuisance lawsuits to undercut U.S. energy production, China is the geopolitical ...

China’s new target for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions has been branded “disappointing” and “underwhelming” by climate experts, who warn the pledge falls far short of the action needed to avert ...

China’s massive lead in clean technologies has shifted the climate fight from one of big pledges and international diplomacy ...

On September 24, 2025, China’s President Xi Jinping announced his country’s new nationally determined contribution (NDC) climate targets for 2035 via video during the UN Climate Summit. In 2020, Xi ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Alice C. Hill is the is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mia Beams ...

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. You could tell me that China still gets most of its electricity ...