Nearly a quarter-billion Chinese live in major cities with moderate to severe subsidence that researchers say puts them at greater risk for flooding and other disasters in the coming decades.

The two biggest climate polluters in the world are China and the United States. The U.S. is preparing for a second presidential term for Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and federal ...

At the COP29 in Baku this week, all eyes will be on a new deal on financing developing countries to tackle the climate crisis. But another critical element to watch is how nations are setting their ...

On September 24, 2025, China’s President Xi Jinping announced his country’s new nationally determined contribution (NDC) climate targets for 2035 via video during the UN Climate Summit. In 2020, Xi ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Alice C. Hill is the is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mia Beams ...

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 ...

Lucia Green-Weiskel has received funding from various US-based foundations for climate related policy work in China through the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation. Lucia is currently a ...

Following COP28, the U.N. climate conference in Abu Dhabi last year, China and the United States both announced the retirement of their climate envoys, Xie Zhenhua and John Kerry, respectively. This ...

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 ...