Anika Patel

1 month ago | carbonbrief.org | Anika Patel |Wanyuan Song |Simon Evans

China BriefingChina Briefing 6 March 2025: ‘Two sessions’ climate news; New vice-minister; Targets missed Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. INTENSITY SLIP: China’s carbon intensity – its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of economic output – only fell by 3.4% in 2024, “below its goal of 3.9%”, Reuters reported.

2 months ago | eco-business.com | Anika Patel

The policy asks local governments to shift new wind and solar projects to a more market-based pricing system by the end of 2025. Said local governments will determine the details of the proposed “sustainable new-energy pricing mechanism”. In broad terms, however, the idea is that new wind and solar schemes would be paid a fixed price determined at auction in a system that resembles the UK’s “contract for difference” mechanism.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Anika Patel |Simon Evans

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. MISSED DEADLINE: China, along with 181 other countries, missed the deadline to submit its next “nationally determined contribution” (NDC), a key climate pledge to the UN that “acts as an accountability measure to ensure countries are taking climate change seriously”, Agence France-Presse reported.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Anika Patel

Builders transfer wind turbine blades to a hoisting site at the construction site in Zhangye, China. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo. China PolicyExplainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals China’s solar and windfarms would no longer be guaranteed sales at a fixed price linked to coal benchmarks, under a new policy released by the central government.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Anika Patel

A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM). The country began building 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-power capacity and resumed 3.3GW of suspended projects in 2024, the highest level of construction in the past 10 years, according to the two thinktanks.