Is China living up to its pledges on climate change and energy transition?

Posted on 21 Feb 2022 in In the news

In September 2020, China pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060 and this climate target was officially submitted in an updated nationally determined contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last October.

More than a year has now passed since China’s initial announcement. In this Guest Post for Carbon Brief, Chunping Xie asks, what expectations of progress does the world have of China – and has China lived up to them?

Carbon Brief, 21 February 2022