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Jan 15, 2025 | 
ecfr.eu | Byford Tsang |Asia Programme
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Byford Tsang |Asia Programme
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Lauri Myllyvirta |Byford Tsang
Environment China In the next few months, Chinese President Xi Jinping will announce his country’s new climate targets. His decision could make or break the Paris Agreement, the landmark treaty—ratified by nearly every country in the world—that aims to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Byford Tsang |Katie Auth
Investing in African infrastructure has long been a high-profile objective of U.S. foreign policy—but lofty rhetoric over the course of decades has fed both outsized expectations and deep skepticism. In the face of rising geopolitical tensions with China and Russia, energy security threats, rapidly evolving digital sectors, and climate change, the United States is under increasing pressure to deliver on its big promises.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Byford Tsang |Gavin Wilde
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
carbonbrief.org | Byford Tsang
With UN climate negotiations underway at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), climate finance has once again been one of the key issues countries have been clashing over. The recently concluded process to design the new “loss-and-damage fund” highlighted known rifts between developed and developing country parties on finance provision.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Byford Tsang |Lauri Myllyvirta
By Jo NovaTwo and a half years ago President Xi promised to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Before this solemn pledge the CCP had approved a blockbuster 54 gigawatts of coal fired power plants in just two years. Afterwards, to show how committed they were to Net Zero principles and international agreements, they *only* approved 131 GW. As President Xi promised — he’s “strictly in control” (of a massive increase).
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Lauri Myllyvirta |Byford Tsang
In April 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Since then, government permits for new coal power plants have soared. According to analysis of Global Energy Monitor data, in the two years before Xi’s pledge, the government approved 127 plants, collectively capable of producing 54 gigawatts of coal power. In the two years after, that number rose to 182 plants, with 131 gigawatts of coal power.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
devdiscourse.com | Byford Tsang
Record-breaking heat in China. Wildfires forcing Swiss villages to evacuate. Drought ravaging Spanish crops. As the costs of climate change rack up, a debate is surging among governments: who should pay?
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
albayane.press.ma | Byford Tsang |John Kerry
ClimatL’émissaire américain pour le climat John Kerry est arrivé dimanche à Pékin avec l’ambition de reprendre le dialogue sur le climat, un sujet crucial pour les deux principaux pollueurs de la planète. Le haut responsable, qui effectue son troisième voyage en Chine depuis sa prise de fonction en 2021, arrive au moment où l’impact du changement climatique se fait particulièrement sentir sur la planète, avec des vagues de chaleur dans de nombreuses régions du monde.
