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Climate

China's emissions may have peaked. The evidence is 21 months long

The world's largest emitter has been flat or falling since March 2024, and 2025 closed 0.3% down, the first decline driven by clean energy rather than economic weakness. If it holds, the world's most important emissions curve turned five years early.

Sep 20, 2026 · 7 min read

Asia & World
Renewables, Energy & Climate Policy

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Climate

The first year past 1.5C has come and gone. Now it is an average

2024 finished at 1.60C above pre-industrial, the first calendar year beyond the Paris marker; 2025 came in at 1.47C, and the last three years together averaged above 1.5C, another first. In treaty terms the threshold is intact. On current warming rates, it will not stay that way for long.

Sep 20, 2026 · 8 min read

World
Climate Policy, Energy & Water