Coal Is Casting A Shadow Over China’s Remarkable Renewable Achievements

China is struggling to balance its pressing need to shore up energy security with its ambitions to position itself at the forefront of the global clean energy transition. As the world gears up for the 27th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, the world’s major political powers will be competing to place themselves at the vanguard of a brave new energy world.

While China has made great strides in the clean energy sector and has secured a chokehold on many of the supply chains that feed into renewable…