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    Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on May 15, 2025 by Lauri Myllyvirta (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

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    From Berlin and Paris, to Brussels and Bucharest, European farmers have driven their tractors to the streets in protest over recent weeks.

  •  | Capacity of pumped hydro storage projects under construction or in earlier stages of development at the end of 2023 GW Source Global Energy Monitor global hydropower tracker | MR Online

    Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on January 25, 2024 by Lauri Myllyvirta (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2024)

    Clean energy contributed a record 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to China’s economy in 2023, accounting for all of the growth in investment and a larger share of economic growth than any other sector.

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    Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on May 12, 2023 by Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted May 23, 2023)

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    Originally published: Carbon Brief on October 25, 2021 (more by Carbon Brief)  |

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    Originally published: Carbon Brief on December 5, 2018 by Zeke Hausfather (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2018)

    Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in seven years.

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