In a consequential move for the global climate, China committed Wednesday to reduce its planet-warming pollution by 7% to 10% from peak levels over the next decade. China’s new economy-wide goal takes ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An aerial view of BYD electric vehicles at the Port Terminal of Zarate in Argentina, on Jan. 20, 2026. Senior Correspondent There’s a Chinese expression—zuò shan guan hǔ dòu—which roughly translates ...

The China and Climate primer series tracks and breaks down China’s engagement with energy and climate issues around the world. February coverage focused on China’s complaints about domestic ...

Mr. Li is the director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute. President Xi Jinping of China has long taken pleasure in poking fun at the West’s short political attention span ...