For attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this image was on full display. Inside WEF’s Congress Center, wealthy nations circled and lunged. U.S. President Donald Trump’s Greenland theatrics made him the loudest,

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched in 2013,

Though China was once viewed as a climate villain, it now dominates global supply chains for solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles, with Chinese

China’s carbon emissions sit at the center of the global climate story, and the timing of their peak matters for everyone. Official statistics and cautious readings of existing research suggest that China’s output of greenhouse gases could be moving toward a plateau well before its public pledge to peak “around 2030,

The China and Climate primer series tracks and breaks down China’s engagement with climate and energy issues around the world. January coverage focused on a series of bilateral climate agreements, Chinese oil majors’ response to the U.

The planet’s third biggest polluter is adding wind and solar and electrifying transport at a faster pace than China did at the same levels of development, new research finds. Its clean energy boom wil

China has managed something climate diplomats once treated as a distant hope: its carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for roughly a year and a half, even as the economy keeps expanding.

There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.

NEW YORK — China pledged Wednesday to cut its world-leading levels of climate pollution by up to 10 percent during the next decade — one day after U.S. President Donald Trump urged global leaders to abandon the effort to halt the Earth's rising ...

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 emissions 7–10% below its peak by 2035 looks modest ...

That dynamic could mean that China achieves its goal of reaching peak emissions before 2030, Beijing’s target date, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2021. Emissions from oil and gas could potentially peak this year, and emissions from coal could peak in 2027.