Glossary: Decoding how China talks about energy and climate change
China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter as well as the fastest deployer and manufacturer of low-carbon technologies, has issued a series of climate policies to help reach net-zero.
As Carbon Brief has detailed in its China country profile, China’s complex political system – a labyrinth of committees, conferences and other bodies – often makes it hard to find out and interpret its policies that happened both at the central and local levels.
The complex nature of climate change and energy technologies have also led Chinese policymakers and regulators to create an abundance of terms, phrases and acronyms that need explanation.
Below, Carbon Brief provides the definitive guide to jargons – from the frequently-used to the obscure – appearing in China’s climate world.