In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight improvement of China’s 2015 Paris climate agreement pledge: national carbon dioxide emissions should now peak before 2030 rather than around 2030.

As municipal budgets are squeezed by COVID-19, authorities need to get creative in order to stave off future weather events.

The world needs to come up with a strong, multilateral solution for combatting climate change, and China's backing in this effort is essential.

China and the EU have showed a promising start on green finance, in part due to China’s speed and enthusiasm to encourage green investments, but stricter environmental standards are needed.

The massive fires in the Amazon Rainforest have ignited concern and sparked debates about the main actors behind climate change. Now the question remains – are the primary countries responsible going to take the action necessary to save the planet?

The efforts of the Chinese government to increase the electrification of their auto industry have caused an impressive increase in China’s use of renewable energy. It’s time for the US to catch up.

Stephen Orlins talks about the challenges facing US-China relations and the career of a "small potato."

China has shifted from a recalcitrant participant in global climate negotiations to a supporter of climate commitments on the world stage. Despite the US’s anti-globalist tendencies with climate policy, China, and the world, are still serious about combating global warming.

Without massive amounts of long-term “patient” capital – which only institutional investors can muster – it will be impossible to transform energy systems fast enough to mitigate the risk of ecological, economic, and social disaster.

Despite the concerns attached to blockchain and its fairly extensive energy use, the world’s two largest economies have found environmentally-friendly potential in this new technology.