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 ...

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 ...

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data ...

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 ...

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, ...

China’s Latest Climate Pledges Fall Short of What’s Needed at COP30 The latest nationally determined contributions (NDCs) from Beijing promises to reduce emissions for the first time, but the ...

A few years ago, one of us (Myles Allen) asked a Chinese delegate at a climate conference why Beijing had gone for “carbon neutrality” for its 2060 target rather than “climate neutrality” or “net zero ...