Xi’s third term: Climate policy is • Table.Briefings

In 2015, Xi Jinping still attended the COP. In recent years, however, he remained absent from the climate conferences.

China’s President Xi Jinping is about to serve a third term as head of state. Under him, climate policy became important in the country with the highest carbon emissions. Emissions have been curbed and renewables greatly expanded. But experts doubt that the green transformation will happen faster in the future. Both growth pressure and the coal lobby are too strong, and internal and international crises are too dominant.

At first glance, the climate track record of China’s new and old CP General Secretary Xi Jinping looks highly successful. In his nine and a half years as head of state, China:

Xi’s third term: Climate policy is important, but growth is paramount

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