While China is making some major investments in solar and wind, it is struggling to shed its reliance on coal. Soaring demand has made it especially difficult for China to produce enough energy using renewables alone. China’s energy use is expected to continue to climb, and its climate goals could be in jeopardy. In 2020, China alone was responsible for more than a third of the world’s wind and solar capacity installations. In terms of volume, Beijing is blowing away the competition when it comes to the green energy transition. China has also tried to position itself at the cutting edge of the global clean energy sector and decarbonization effort through extremely ambitious climate goals, including pledging to hit peak carbon emissions by 2030 and complete carbon neutrality by 2060. Despite these hugely ambitious targets and China’s prodigious buildout of renewable energy capacity and infrastructure, however, China has been […]