BAKU, Azerbaijan — The coming U.S. retreat from leadership on global climate policy comes amid a dawning reality: For much of the world, China already calls the shots. Beijing’s decades-long effort to ...

The two biggest climate polluters in the world are China and the United States. The U.S. is preparing for a second presidential term for Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and federal ...

The two economic juggernauts issued a joint statement on climate change, urging more emission cuts and greater use of green technology and affirming their support for the Paris Climate Agreement as ...

The world has gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29 th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29). Countries at the conference came to an agreement on the ...

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 ...

BEIJING — China is likely to overdeliver on the modest goals the government has set to cut carbon pollution, experts say. The question is whether that will be enough to help the world curb warming?

(Bloomberg) -- In the corridors of the United Nations climate summit in Brazil, there had been hopes that China — a vocal advocate of emissions reduction and the powerhouse of clean energy technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe and China are taking steps to strengthen ties where possible, despite a complicated relationship, as Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president assaults the frameworks that their economies ...