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Those 4.9bn tonnes of coal represented more than half the world’s total consumption. They also represented a record level of Chinese consumption. If an economy is heavily electrified, economic growth ...

This makes possible a virtuous circle. The more other countries invest cost-effectively in fossil-fuel-free growth, the better it is for Chinese industry. The success of the world’s second biggest ...

It is the world’s renewable-energy superpower. Gabriel Crossley and Jeremy Page ask whether China could be the world’s climate leader, too ...

Scientists believe that the acceleration in global warming seen since the mid-2010s has been largely due to changes in the ...

Travel around Pakistan and you will see solar panels everywhere, from pukka bungalows to mosques, from farms to roadside ...

C ritics of China’s economy often complain that its investment is excessive and its official statistics flatter its ...

But she also voiced a concern shared by more and more of China’s people. “Everyone feels it. Summers are hotter, winters are ...

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Nearly five years on, Ms Abrams’s glow has faded and the political machine she created is closing. The New Georgia Project, a voter-mobilisation group she founded in 2013, was the basis of her success ...

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