Trying to Compete with China Could Slow Global Climate Action, Report Warns

Trying to compete with China could slow global climate action, report warns

By Joe Stafford, University of ManchesterChina’s dominance of batteries, electric vehicles and solar power is helping drive global decarbonisation - but creating tensions with the UK and other Western economies.Image: Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra - UnsplashChina’s dominance of key green technologies is helping to subsidise the global transition to a low-carbon economy, but trade tensions could make it harder for other countries to meet their cli…

China’s green dominance a ‘dilemma’ for world’s governments: report

World needs cheap green technologies to decarbonise, and efforts to reduce reliance on China risk slowing the transition, researchers say.