Climate Bonds Café: Chinese New Year

About this episode

This episode explores China's ambitious sustainability targets and its climate journey with insights from Yunhan Chen and Rob Zhang.

Watching China’s climate journey feels a bit like riding a powerful horse. It’s fierce, fast, and full of relentless energy. In this episode of the Climate Bonds Café, we deep into China's ambitious sustainability targets: from peaking carbon emissions by 2030 to expanding renewable energy capacity at record speeds. We're joined by Climate Bonds' Yunhan Chen and Rob Zhang, who cover everything from the big market updates, policy, governance and navigating a tense geo-political landscape. What does the Year of the Horse look like for China's sustainable ambitions?

People in this episode

Guests: Yunhan Chen, Rob Zhang

Topics covered

• China's climate journey
• sustainability targets
• renewable energy
• carbon emissions
• geo-political landscape

Keywords

• China
• sustainability
• renewable energy
• carbon emissions
• geo-political landscape
• Chinese New Year
• Year of the Horse

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Places: China, Year of the Horse

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