This is huge for decarbonisation in China’s steel sector👇

🇨🇳🏛️ BREAKING | #China issues policy suspending all new #steel plant permits ⚡️After H1 2024 saw no new permits issued for coal-based steel plants, China's Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) issued a policy suspending all new steel plant permits today⤵️

Big changes afoot. And you heard it from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air report weeks before it became official.

NEW – Q&A: The global ‘trade war’ over China’s booming EV industry | Song_W Dr Verner Viisainen - vernerviisas.bsky.social Anika Patel w/ comment from Yao Zhe Jacob Gunter Gregor Sebastian Belinda Schäpe 林孝蓓 Joe Webster Read here: buff.ly/4cIljP0

China’s State Council released a White Paper “China’s Energy Transition” today. It documented the achievements in the past ten years. Here is the full text of the White Paper. Chinese: politics.people.com.cn/n1/2024/0829/c… English: english.news.cn/20240829/7fcf3…

China's National Energy Administration responded to my analysis showing that the country's emissions have already peaked if clean energy additions continue at current rates. The response predictably plays down the possibility, reinforcing that official targets and ambition are

NEW - Song_W Dr Verner Viisainen - vernerviisas.bsky.social and I explain what you need to know about 🇨🇳 EV trade tensions, inc: 🏎️ How 🇨🇳's EV industry grew so quickly 💡 The role of subsidies vs innovation 📈 How 🇨🇳 exports compare globally ♟️ Drivers behind the 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧 responses carbonbrief.org/qa-the-global-…

Join us for our upcoming event on China-Africa relations in the context of #FOCAC 2024 on 10 Sep, 6pm LSE, co-hosted by Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk and YoungChinaWatchers! I’m delighted to chair a panel with Yunnan Chen 陈韵楠, Frangton Chiyemura, Jade Scarfe & Lukas Fiala Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/focac-2024-a…

📣 Upcoming event: Join us for a discussion on #China-#Africa relations in the context of #FOCAC 2024, co-hosted with Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk 📅 Sep 10 🕰 6pm 📍 LSE With Frangton Chiyemura, Jade Scarfe, Lukas Fiala & Yunnan Chen 陈韵楠 - chaired by Belinda Schäpe 林孝蓓 Register: eventbrite.com/e/focac-2024-a…

China is finally moving ahead with the inclusion of industrial emitters into the country's emission trading scheme, with iron&steel, cement and aluminum industries being added. The first compliance deadline is already at the end of next year, but the 2024-26 timeframe is dubbed a

NEW: Conventional combustion-engine car sales just fell 28% year-on-year in August, driving their share of the world's top auto market to a record-low 46% NEV sales, including BEV and PHEV, climbed 43% year-on-year in August – and 35% in 2024ytd The 54% market share for NEVs in

In a new piece for The Wire China, John Paul Helveston, Paul Triolo and I examine whether there really is "overcapacity" in China's automotive sector. We find little evidence of excess production capacity for electric vehicles. 1/ thewirechina.com/2024/09/08/the…