🌍 1/ Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the #EU and #China remain committed to climate action. Today we renewed that commitment with a #jointstatement, a meaningful step in a world facing growing geopolitical tensions and climate risks.

Climate & energy elements in China's new government work report are all but promising. China remains off track for many key 2025 targets. The low fossil fuel intensity target & no mention of the carbon intensity target show a a lack of government focus on reducing emissions

🇨🇳 NEW | #China must slash 15% of its #steelmaking capacity within 2025 to rescue plunging profits & meet carbon neutrality goals 📄 Report now available here: energyandcleanair.org/publication/... w/ @xinyi-shen.bsky.social & @belindaschaepe.bsky.social

New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.

Q&A: The global ‘trade war’ over China’s booming EV industry | @wanyuansong.bsky.social @vernerviisas.carbonbrief.org @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Yao Zhe, Jacob Gunter, Gregor Sebastian, @belindaschaepe.bsky.social Joseph Webster #CBarchive Read here: https://buff.ly/4hpck8k

NEW from me: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China's CO2 rise. Emissions have plateaued since March last year. 🧵on China's emissions trends in 2024 AND 2025 👇

NEW from me: Half of all China’s exports of solar and wind power equipment and electric vehicles (EVs) now go to the Global South. Emerging and developing countries have driven most of the recent growth in export volumes.