Publications

I regularly write on topics at the nexus of climate change and geopolitics, ranging from Chinese domestic climate policies to climate diplomacy between China, Europe, the US, and South-South cooperation.

China’s Climate Transition Outlook 2025: Expert survey

co-authored with Xunpeng Shi, International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) and Qi Qin, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, November 2025

A Shared Green Future: Why the EU and China Need Each Other in the Energy Transition

op-ed as part of a dossier titled: EU-China Relations: Bound by Clean Tech or Divided by It?, by the Beijing Representative Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, November 2025

China’s New Climate Targets: Will China Lead the Global Climate Fight?

co-authored with Lauri Myllyvirta, Heinrich Boell Foundation, October 2025

Decoding China’s upcoming climate targets

co-authored with Lauri Myllyvirta, September 2025

From Statement to Action: Effectively Implementing EU – China Climate Cooperation

co-authored with Yang Ou (Peking University), Hanns Seidel Foundation China, September 2025

Coal is losing ground but not letting go: Structural inertia and the struggle to shift coal’s role in China’s power system

contributed to report co-authored by Qi Qin, CREA and Christine Shearer, GEM, August 2025

Closing the loop: from stalled green steel targets to a strategic reset in China

co-authored with Xinyi Shen, July 2025

Germany must seize the chance to engage China on climate action

co-authored with Martin Voss and Barbara Pongratz, Dialogue Earth, July 2025

Clean energy industry can double in value by 2035 and deliver one fifth of China’s economic modernisation goal

co-authored with Lauri Myllyvirta, June 2025

Urge for reform: blast furnace glut in China erodes profitability and hinders green steel transition

co-authored with Xinyi Shen, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor, February 2025

When coal won’t step aside: The challenge of scaling clean energy in China

contributed to briefing co-authored by Qi Qin and Christine Shearer, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor, February 2025

Analysis: China’s coal-to-chemicals growth risks climate goals

co-authored with Chengcheng Qiu, Dialogue Earth, December 2024

Three years later: Impacts of China’s overseas coal power ban

contributed to briefing authored by Daniel Nesan, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, November 2024

China’s Climate Transition: Outlook 2024

co-authored with Lauri Myllyvirta, Qi Qin, Xinyi Shen, and Chengcheng Qiu, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, November 2024

China’s clean energy trends could cut emissions by 30% in 2035 if sustained – A scorecard for China’s new climate targets

co-authored with Lauri Myllyvirta, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, October 2024

The UK’s Role in Advancing Responsible Transition Minerals Supply Chains

co-authored with Cathy Haenlein and Dan Marks, RUSI, October 2024

China puts coal on back burner as renewables soar

contributed to briefing co-authored by Qi Qin and Christine Shearer, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor, August 2024

Turning point: China permitted no new coal-based steel projects in H1 2024 as policies drive decarbonisation

co-authored with Xinyi Shen, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, July 2024

Decarbonising the Chinese steel sector: Drivers and challenges

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, July 2024

How to De-risk Green Technology Supply Chains from China Without Risking Climate Catastrophe

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 2024

EU-China Competition on Green Technologies Is Here to Stay, and Needs to Be Well-Managed

Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), June 2024

Europe’s election results won’t shake its climate commitments

Dialogue Earth, June 2024

Germany’s new China Strategy – A roadmap for climate foreign policy

9Dashline, August 2023

Islands and oases: EU-China climate diplomacy in times of geopolitical challenges

co-authored with Byford Tsang, in “EU-China relations at a crossroads: Vol. II: Decoding complexity, mitigating risk” as part of EU & China Think-Tank Exchanges, coordinated by the European Policy Centre, July 2023

Follow the money: Chinese climate-related finance to the Global South

co-authored with Byford Tsang and Alexandra Hackbarth, E3G, April 2023

World drives forward on No New Coal but China takes a detour

co-authored with Oyku Senlen, Leo Roberts, Chris Littlecott, Camilla Fenning, Byford Tsang, Anusha Mata, Katrine Tilgaard Petersen, Sasha Kinney, Hannah Blitzer, and Samora Levy, E3G, March 2023

EU’s climate leadership is now on foreign ministers

co-authored with Jule Könneke, Euractiv, February 2023

The 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress: what it means for China’s climate policy

co-authored with Byford Tsang and Alexandra Hackbarth, E3G, October 2022

Opinion: China’s crucial role in decarbonising the global steel sector

co-authored with Byford Tsang, China Dialogue, May 2022

Climate Engagement with China: A Litmus Test for Germany’s G7 Presidency

co-authored with Jule Könneke, CHOICE (China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe), March 2022

Coal in 2022: China’s coal power in the spotlight

co-authored with Byford Tsang, E3G, January 2022

Global Warming: a cooperation issue to avoid the freezing of EU-China relations?

co-authored with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Léa Pilsner, and Byford Tsang, in “Building Europe’s Strategic Autonomy vis-à-vis China”, Jacques Delors Institute, December 2021