China’s Climate Focus is Shifting from Carbon Cuts to Green Tech Dominance
Beijing’s next Five-Year Plan will make climate diplomacy look more like trade diplomacy.
Ma Jun on U.S.-China Climate Collaboration, Green Finance and Jobs
The economist discusses how China’s clean energy transition can help boost employment and the chances of working with the U.S. on green issues.
A Vital Year Ahead for U.S.-China Climate Engagement
Disagreements loom on how to fund the global fight against climate change, but there’s plenty of room this year for both countries to entrench recent...
How a Battery Metals Supply Glut is Deepening China’s Dominance
Crashing metals prices are making it hard for Western miners to justify new investments in the minerals needed for clean energy.
The Rising Cost of the Climate Crisis
Besides the human cost, natural disasters are causing ever more damage to China’s economy.
China’s Coal Calculations
The country’s carbon emissions could enter structural decline next year, but there’s a big if.
The Science Split?
With a landmark, 44-year-old agreement set to expire at the end of this month, the U.S. is facing one of its biggest China tests: Can...
Climate Cooperation by Other Means
To stabilize U.S.-China climate cooperation, look beyond bilateral partnerships to more creative modes of engagement.
Major Miner
A look at Zijin Mining, which made its name digging up gold, but is now hoping to catch up in the race to produce the...
Climate Changers
With climate diplomacy deadlocked, researchers and policy makers are grappling with extreme warming scenarios and sobering choices — including tinkering with the global climate. Despite...
China’s Under-Used Grid
A look at China’s electricity grid: how it works, who foots the bill, and how its structure leads to power crunches and expensive prices despite...
Refocusing U.S.-China Climate Relations
Zero-sum competition between the U.S. and China holds disastrous consequences for the climate. A new model is needed.