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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The country has the world’s highest emissions. It’s also a climate technology powerhouse. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

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 ...

Then-U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and his delegation meet with Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua in Beijing, China, July 17, 2023. Credit: U.S. State Department photo The collapse of climate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Yixian Sun receives funding from UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (grant number: MR/X035956/1). With the US in retreat from climate action and Europe preoccupied by security challenges, new leadership ...