China on Wednesday committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 to 10 percent over the next 10 years, marking the first time it has set out a concrete target. Although climate experts ...

Clean energy is the “trend of our time,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said, announcing targets for trimming his country’s carbon pollution. NEW YORK — China pledged Wednesday to cut its world-leading ...

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 ...

Lucia Green-Weiskel has received funding from various US-based foundations for climate related policy work in China through the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation. Lucia is currently a ...

President Xi Jinping’s pledge to cut China’s total greenhouse gas emissions by 7–10 per cent by 2035 is a politically significant step for a still middle-income country. Yet the update falls short of ...

It is a huge moment for the world’s biggest polluter. China’s steel mills, factories and coal-fired power stations pump out billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. At the same time, massive ...

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