China’s emissions from energy and industry fell slightly last year after a solar boom helped to meet a larger part of its growing power needs, according to official statistics, continuing a trend ...

China has created a desert that no longer just reflects the Sun. It captures it. Aluminium soaks up the rays on the golden ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING — China and the European Union have issued a joint call to action on climate change during an otherwise tense bilateral summit in Beijing on Thursday riven with major disagreements over trade ...

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 ...

There’s a Chinese expression—zuò shan guan hǔ dòu—which roughly translates to “Sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight.” For attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in ...

“China and Climate” tracks and breaks down China’s engagement with climate and energy issues around the world. Major climate and energy stories in December highlighted this month include tech-funding ...

CFR’s Elizabeth Economy says it is “not unreasonable” to seek binding commitments from China and India on emissions that would take effect a decade from now. She also recommends decoupling China from ...

Severe droughts and floods in 9th-century China may have triggered migration, weakened border defenses, and accelerated the fall of the Tang dynasty.