China’s Climate Transition: Outlook 2023

 “CO2 emissions rise, but clean energy surge brings peak closer”

As the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and the main source of emissions growth in the past two decades, China holds a crucial role in global climate efforts. To enable global emissions to peak fast enough, China needs to not only meet but exceed its current emissions commitments.

China’s success in meeting and exceeding its current climate targets is possibly the single most important factor in the global fight against climate change. Currently, progress on clean energy deployment is undermined by continued coal capacity expansion and a rapid growth of energy consumption. To successfully achieve a peaking and rapid decline of emissions, China will need increased efforts on energy efficiency, a successful transformation of the economic growth model, or even higher investments into clean energy, which are already surging.

In this series of annual outlook reports on China’s climate target progress, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)  breaks down China's progress to benchmarks for different sectors and variables that can be compared to available data from China. Each one is based on a suite of climate transition scenarios from Chinese and international institutions.

In this edition of the outlook report in November 2023, CREA reassesses Chinaʼs progress towards the countryʼs climate commitments and towards emissions pathways aligned with the Paris agreement goals. The report is published with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) global head office in Berlin, Germany.

Join us for the launch of the second annual edition of their China outlook report where the co-authors will share their critical findings.

With: 

• Lauri Myllyvirty (Lead Analyst, CREA)
• Qi Qin (China Analyst, CREA).

Kontakt:
Rafael Klabisch
Projektbearbeitung IZ Asien
E: Klabisch@boell.de

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