For nearly a decade, the U.S. and China, the two most powerful nations on the planet, have met every year to talk about how to run the world together.When the talks began in 2006, they focused on ...

The country is embracing clean energy faster than expected. By German Lopez While the U.S. and Europe have enacted sweeping policies to fight climate change in recent years, China has always had ...

With less than a month before the annual U.N. Climate Change Conference, China is so far defying pressure to set ambitious climate targets early and to do more to help poor nations cope with the ...

Last year China dug up a record 4.7bn tonnes of the stuff, a process that releases methane, another dangerous greenhouse gas. China is responsible for around 10% of all human-caused methane emissions.

In China, the US climate bill is being viewed as a “competitive gesture,” and with a certain amount of skepticism that the US can move as fast as it wants to on the clean energy transition, ...

None of these are new. They were all announced by Mr. Xi in December 2020, and they fall far short of what many climate advocates inside and outside China had hoped for.

As a new Trump administration signals a retreat on climate action, China is stepping up. China is the biggest producer of climate technologies, and it's making money selling them around the world.