China’s economy could grow six-fold by 2050 with renewable energy accounting for 69 percent of national electricity supply if it transforms its energy system and increases efficiency across the industrial, transport, construction...
Think Chinese SOEs' have little incentive to stray beyond China? That's far from the case. Just look at Britain's utilities
New data shows that Chinese projects are disproportionately sited in the home towns of African leaders
Talks involve restrictions on coal, iron ore and crude oil
More than 1 million people died from dirty air in one year
Can the shift to more domestic output be met without blanketing China's cities in smog?
With public assessment of their subsidies, China and the US take a big step on transparency, but inch forward on reform
Photographing the aftermath of catastrophic events is challenging—one that photographer Mu Li handles with creativity and grace looking back at the chemical explosion in Tianjin that damaged as many as 17,000 homes August 12, 2015. Another...
On September 4-5, heads of the world’s major economies will meet in the southeastern city of Hangzhou for the G20 summit. The meeting represents “the most significant gathering of world leaders in China’s history,” according to The New York Times...
Summaries of the consultants’ interviews with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were filed this month.
Hundreds of thousands are being moved from regions made unsafe from coal companies.
Local wariness toward China’s growing economic influence has risen amid a wave of Chinese takeovers of Australian businesses.
Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China, and anger over lax standards is growing.
Overcapacity is dogging swathes of Chinese industry, including steel and petrochemicals, stifling profitability and damaging the environment.
On Tuesday in the Hague, the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected China’s claims that a scattering of rocks and reefs in the contested South China Sea qualify as Exclusive Economic Zones for China. The court found in favor of the Philippines’...
Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of the world’s freshwater resources and affects the regional climate of North Asia and the Arctic Basin. The lake is home to 2,500 aquatic species and local communities in Mongolia and Russia revere the lake as the...
China prides itself on being the world’s wind energy leader by a wide margin.....
With global temperatures rising, can China afford to protect its rivers and forgo an alternative to the coal-fired plants responsible for much of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions?
Some of China’s largest state-owned coalminers are asking banks to relax payment terms on loans, as a profound slump in prices devastates China’s coal heartland.
China’s clean energy pledges are prompting a supply of new financing tools to fund the estimated $6.53 trillion needed to switch from heavy, polluting industries to clean projects.
International tensions are rising over the shipping lanes and land formations in the South China Sea. Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response to a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the disputed Fiery Cross...
China’s nuclear power industry has eyed up a big push to export its technologies as countries around the world...
The "excess" production is causing such a crisis for the global steel industry that U.S. is joining an international push to try to cut the glut.
China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD Auto Co., is under intense scrutiny following the death of a Nanjing auto dealer who accused the company of bilking a government subsidy program and a Caixin probe suggesting the...
China’s central government has ordered local authorities to delay or cancel construction of new coal-fired power plants, as regulators attempt to reduce a glut in capacity, just one year after decisions were delegated to the...
This week, at their biggest annual session in Beijing, Chinese lawmakers are expected to ratify the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan, which contains many new measures to address rampant pollution of the country’s air, soil, and water. Will the plan...
For the first time ever, a senior Chinese leader announced in his work report to the National...
China released new statistics indicating less coal use last year than in 2014, lending support to the view that the country may have reached a peak in coal consumption.
China expects to lay off about 15 percent of the workforce, as part of efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity.
China has overtaken Europe to become the world’s biggest producer of wind power after its domestic sector grew by 60 percent last year.
Following a government-backed drive to build new wind farms, China’s installed capacity...
Over the past two centuries, there have been periodic tensions between Russia and China, including some serious border conflicts, and historically Russia has usually held the upper hand. But nowadays, at the personal level, Monteleone notices a...
A study by Climate Central, a non-profit news organization focusing on climate science, showed that 12 other nations have more than 10 million people living on land...
On Wednesday, North Korea claimed that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, bringing to four the number of nuclear weapons it has set off on its own territory since 2006. The act drew international condemnation, prompting us to ask: What’s different...
As ongoing climate talks wind down at COP21 this week, participants in and observers of the summit in Paris wrote in to share their assessment of the message coming from the official delegation from China, currently the world’s largest emitter of...
The country will have 110 working nuclear reactors by 2030.
China’s trade with Africa grew to $222 billion last year, making it
China's cabinet announced that it would try to cut pollution from coal-fired power plants by 60 percent by 2020 through upgrades to plants.
Few issues are more likely to provoke interest about China.
Beijing confirms for the first time plans for East African nation, already home to U.S. base.
China’s Commerce Ministry publicly admitted that Chinese investments to Africa had fallen by 40 percent in the first half of this year.
As we approach the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Johannesburg, we try better to understand the main issues that surely will arise when Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma meet on...
Fund is largest cornerstone investor in China
Recent revelations about Volkswagen’s emissions have focused attention on the environmental damage caused by the auto and fuel industries—and the need for a decisive shift towards genuinely green transport that can cut smog in the...
China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change.
In September 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics of China published China’s energy statistics for 2013, as well as revised statistics for the years 2000 to 2012. NBS supplied the IEA with detailed energy balances for 2011 to 2013 and using...
The US tech giant’s plans to generate over 2GW of low carbon electricity at its China operations could speed up the greening of the ‘world’s workshop’
Chad is one of the poorest, most corrupt, and, increasingly,...
Challenging China’s newly assertive behavior in the South China Sea, this week the U.S. Navy sailed some of its biggest ships inside the nine-dash line, exercising its claim to freedom of movement in international waters plied by billions in...
During the third India-Africa Summit, Indian officials are working hard to differentiate their country from China.
The grand kowtow continues its humiliating progress today, but beggars can’t be choosers.
This week, Xi Jinping is in Great Britain for a state visit, his first since assuming leadership of China nearly three years ago. Britain’s government under David Cameron has signaled—increasingly loudly in recent months—that it hopes to usher in...
Sixty-two years after Chairman Mao first envisioned the South-North Water Transfer project, the Middle Route (SNWT-MR) formally began transferring supplies of water from Danjiangkou reservoir on the border of Hubei and Henan in...
The September 25 joint announcement by President Obama and President Xi represents the second time in two years the leaders have met to make significant climate commitments. Last year’s meeting focused on setting aggressive goals that reflect...
Qi Ye, director of public policy centre in Beijing, says China is showing ‘global leadership’ on climate change.
Recent summer heatwaves in Europe and northeast Asia have caused massive water shortages and a large number of deaths. But the mechanism behind these extreme weather events is not fully understood.
Scientists at China’s...
