Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, visited China in March 2025 and met with Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, China’s National Energy Administrator Minister Wang Hongzhi, and China’s Ecology and Environment Minister Huang Runqiu in Beijing to commit to pragmatic engagement on the climate crisis, cooperating with China to reduce global emissions. Writing in The Guardian ahead of the visit, Miliband said: “The only way …
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China is making good progress towards its current goals, but experts say it needs to do more to align with the 1.5°C global warming threshold, writes Lin Zi for China Dialogue Work on a new national climate action plan is in full swing, with the focus being on targets for 2035, China’s climate envoy Liu Zhenmin told Dialogue Earth at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian this June. Signatories …
Research by Energy Foundation China has found that young people need to be shown how climate issues connect to their lives, Huang Wei writes for Dialogue Earth A new report supported by Energy Foundation China, the NGO I work for, contains some fascinating findings on the climate attitudes of China’s 15 to 24 year olds, or Gen Z, as they’re more often known. It also offers helpful advice on how …
Recent extreme weather events — including the floods in Henan in 2021 and the China-wide heatwave in 2022 — have shown the importance of upgrading early warning and response systems nationwide, according to China Dialogue’s Jiang Mengnan and Lin Zi “At about 2pm, the sky went dark and water started leaking into the office. Heavy rain and flood warnings started to appear on Weibo and some of my colleagues put …
The remarkable shift in global politics of recent years came to a head on Tuesday this week (22nd September) when Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump both spoke in pre-recorded messages to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Xi’s speech to a large extent echoed his famous speech at Davos in 2017. Once again, he sought to portray China as a leading proponent of …