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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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    Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change?

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on February 5, 2024 (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted Feb 12, 2024)

    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.

  •  | British empire marketing board poster from 1928 Credit GRANGER   Historical Picture Archive  Alamy Stock Photo | MR Online

    How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on November 26, 2023 by Simon Evans and Verner Vaiisainen (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted Dec 05, 2023)

    Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

  •  | CO2 de China Photo joaquimelcachoblogspotcom | MR Online

    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)

    China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.

  •  | The Forbidden City in heavy smog in Beijing on 14 January 2013 Credit Oriental Image | MR Online

    Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change

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

    China says on the international stage that it wants to tackle climate change, but it also says it must deliver “national energy security”. The decade ahead will show whether it can meet this challenge. The whole world is relying on it doing so.

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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.

Monthly Review Essays

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    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez  | Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision | MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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