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China's former climate envoy to meet with EU to revive flailing UN pact, sources say China's former veteran climate envoy, who previously secured two pivotal climate agreements with the United States, will meet with the EU's top green transition official on Tuesday to resuscitate flailing international climate negotiations ahead of the COP30 summit in Brazil, three sources told Reuters.

China is expected to announce its new NDC by September 24, two sources told Reuters. #ParisAgreement #2035

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"The experts at the meeting affirmed the research results of the 'Study on Local Control of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases in #China', and agreed that the results provide scientific support and useful reference for the next step of China's local control of non-CO2 gases."

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Meanwhile, last week, #China's National Center for #Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) organized a seminar on non-carbon dioxide #emission control and reduction projects.

China tells EU new climate target coming in autumn Chinese officials have told the European Union the country will produce a new national plan to tackle climate change in the autumn, the European Commission's green chief Teresa Ribera said on Monday.

New updates on #China's #climate target.

Reuters - "They have committed to an NDC that is comprehensive in terms of the whole economy being under the scope, taking into consideration all greenhouse gases," said Teresa Ribera, who oversees the EU's climate policies.

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Leading Battery Makers Fall Short on Climate Commitments - Greenpeace East Asia HONG KONG – Most of the world’s top EV battery manufacturers have yet to set targets for both 100% renewable electricity and supply chain emission reductions, according to a new…

⚡ New research calls into question whether leading EV battery makers are serious about decarbonization.

🚘 Most top EV battery makers have no targets for 100% renewable electricity, cutting supply chain emissions, or both.

Greenpeace East Asia reaction to China’s UN Ocean Conference statement on actively pursuing national ratification process - Greenpeace East Asia 9 June 2025

Speaking at #UNOC, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said that China is actively pursuing its national ratification process of the Global Ocean Treaty.

Our response:

"This is a positive signal from China. And ratification needs to happen as soon as possible..."

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Updated Climate Visuals

(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)

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China says wind and solar energy capacity exceeds thermal for first time China's wind and solar energy capacity has surpassed that of mostly coal-powered thermal for the first time, the national energy body said Friday.

Last Friday, #China said its wind and solar energy capacity exceeded thermal for the first time in the first quarter of 2025, and wind and solar additions in the first quarter had "far exceeded" China's total increase in electricity consumption. @afpnews.bsky.social

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The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Brazil is urging countries, including China, to set tougher emissions goals ahead of #COP30, @reuters.com reports.

This week, Xi Jinping also said that #China will announce its 2035 NDCs covering all economic sectors and greenhouse gases before COP 30.

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"The economic concerns that are constraining China's NDC are still there, if not exacerbated by Trump's tariffs," said Yao Zhe, global policy advisor with Greenpeace in Beijing.

Brazil urging tougher emissions goals ahead of climate summit, sources say Brazil, which hosts this year's United Nations climate summit, has a main goal of persuading Europe, China and other developing economies to commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, three people with knowledge of the country's plans told Reuters.

Reuters: Lula is set to meet Xi in person at least twice before the September deadline for new pledges, including at a June gathering of BRICS leaders in Brazil.

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Xi: China will announce its 2035 #NDC target, covering all economic sectors and greenhouse gases, ahead of the United Nations #Climate Change Conference in Belém.
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Small farms, big challenge: Greenpeace report analyzes climate change’s impact on farming communities in China - Greenpeace East Asia Beijing – As farmers around China respond to climate change’s impact on their livelihood, including rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, climate disasters, and seasonal changes, amon...

BREAKING: A new report from our Beijing office analyzes how climate change is impacting farmers in China, finding impacts from higher temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, climate disasters, and seasonal changes.

Climate adaptation needs to include...

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Trump tariffs on Chinese energy storage products may strengthen #China’s #energy transition. Greenpeace East Asia Beijing-based project lead Yao Yi told @semafor.com “These tariffs may provide the unintentional incentive of strengthening China’s energy transition for its energy storage sector.”

China Envoy Sees Global Climate Fight Advancing Even Without US China’s top climate envoy said the world’s transition to clean energy will continue, even as the US’s second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement puts unprecedented stress on the fight against global w...

Bloomberg: China’s Envoy Sees Climate Fight Advancing Even Without US

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This will further elevate the power sector's #peak emissions. China must accelerate the integration of #renewable energy as the mainstay of the power system instead of continuing to rely on coal power; this is essential to keeping China's green energy transition on track.

Explainer: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2025? - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief outlines key signals from China's 2025 “two sessions”, including new energy target and clean-energy and climate priorities.

China's major political event "Two Sessions" ended this week. Our global policy advisor Yao Zhe told @carbonbrief.org that its target of reducing energy intensity by 3% per unit of GDP means it's “on track to miss its 14th five-year plan energy intensity target”.

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Exclusive | European Parliament removes curbs on lawmaker meetings with China Move may signal thaw in relations against backdrop of rapidly fraying alliance with Washington.

It’s really worth watching this apparent thaw in EU-China relations as an aspect of global energy policy and the fight between fossil fuels and clean power: 🧵

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How China came to dominate the world in renewable energy China now eclipses every other country in the world — including the United States — in the green technologies of the future. Here’s how it achieved this lead.

Our project lead, Gao Yuhe, thinks this trend suggests that in 2025, renewable energy could meet all additional electricity demand, eliminating the need for new coal power projects. Achieving this would pave the way for China's power sector to peak by 2025.

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Special Series: 7 of 11 Jurors Tied to Fossil Fuel Industry as Pipeline Company Wraps Up Arguments For five weeks, I'm living in Bismarck, North Dakota, covering a major fossil fuels and First Amendment trial for Drilled. Today the pipeline company Energy Transfer wrapped up its arguments against G...

Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace DAY 10:

As Energy Transfer wrapped its arguments, a juror disclosed work for a fossil fuel company that owns a minority interest in the Dakota Access Pipeline

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China sets GDP target of 5% for 2025 amid tariff war with Trump Economists believe that meeting the target will be challenging as Beijing grapples with Donald Trump’s new trade war

#China released a key #climate pledge this week in its annual government work report to reduce carbon intensity by 3% per unit of GDP.

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Nations fail to break deadlock on UN climate report timing Nations were deciding whether the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would deliver its next assessment before 2028.

The deadlock "only serves those who wish to hold back #climate action," said analyst Yao Zhe said.

"But climate vulnerable countries cannot wait."

"It's a bitter disappointment every time when division leads to a decision being postponed or kicked down the road."

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Energy Transfer - We will not be silenced - Greenpeace International Greenpeace needs your support against Big Oil’s attempt to silence us!

BREAKING: American oil giant, Energy Transfer, is suing @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social and @greenpeace.org for $300 million.

If Energy Transfer wins, Greenpeace in the US could be forced to close tits doors after more than fifty years of protecting people and the planet.

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An ambitious new 2025-2035 climate plan from #China must include both a strong commitment to #renewables and clear measures to move away from #coal.

Our Beijing-based global policy advisor Yao Zhe speaks to @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org at @carbonbrief.org.

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Greenpeace East Asia’s comment on China’s energy storage manufacturing action plan - Greenpeace East Asia Beijing – China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other government departments announced this week a new action plan to promote “high-quality development of the new-typ...

This week China released a new action plan to promote “high-quality development of the new-type energy storage manufacturing industry.”

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In China, delivery companies start responding to climate risk, extreme weather impact on business, investment: Greenpeace report  - Greenpeace East Asia Beijing – Seven of the eight biggest delivery companies in China have established internal frameworks to respond to climate risk, a new report from Greenpeace East Asia shows, but while…

Our new report looks at delivery companies in China, how extreme weather impacts them, & how companies are responding.

It indicates climate risk already impacts business, and of the 8 biggest companies, 7 have set up internal frameworks for climate risk.

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