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 ...

China has revealed its goal for slashing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a glimpse into how global emissions might change over the next decade. In a video address to the United Nations ...

EUREKA, Calif., and ZHANGBEI COUNTY, China– Twenty miles off the misty northern coast of California, off of Humboldt Bay, there's a plan to build offshore wind turbines to power more than two million ...

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 ...

Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world's attention is elsewhere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. US Paris Agreement withdrawal creates leadership vacuum for climate stability China dominates clean energy supply chains ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday it was Sun Day — a nationwide climate-activist event, timed to the beginning of New York’s Climate Week, meant to celebrate the fact that, however gloomy or defeated you may be feeling about ...

When UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband travelled to China in March 2025 to resume bilateral talks on energy and climate change cooperation, he highlighted two ways in which the Labour government has ...

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