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Energy

China’s renewables boom enters new phase as industrial transformation takes centre stage

Agora analysis highlights China’s clean energy shift towards system integration and industry. The new Five-Year Plan should further grid flexibility, demand-side response and industrial electrification to sustain emission cuts and enhance energy security.

Press release from Agora Energiewende

Berlin & Beijing, 17 June 2026. China’s ability to deliver sustained emission reductions now depends on translating its rapid renewable energy expansion into industrial transformation, according to a new analysis by Agora Energy China and Agora Energiewende. The country’s energy transition is entering a new phase in which central priorities also include system integration and an absolute emission reduction trajectory. 

Released ahead of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) for energy development, the data-driven analysis identifies ten major trends that shaped the country’s energy and industrial transition during the previous FYP period (2021-2025).

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Energy

What the Ksi Lisims LNG Deal Means for Canada, Germany, and Global Emissions

Germany is a leader in the global energy transition. It is also one of the few nations whose emissions are falling at a rate close to what Climate Action Tracker says is needed to limit the rise in average global temperatures to 1.7°C. Yet last week, Germany’s leading utility, Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), signed an agreement to purchase one million tonnes of Canadian LNG per annum for up to 20 years. What does this mean for Canada, Germany and the world, in terms of emissions?  

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Cost of Climate Change, Energy, Politics

Conservative Pipeline Motion defeated

On Tuesday, December 9, Tim Uppal, the Conservative MP for Edmonton Gateway (AB), moved that the House of Commons “support the construction of one or more pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic deep-water port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets, including through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, while respecting the duty to consult Indigenous peoples.” The wording, he pointed out, was taken directly from the Prime Minister’s MOU with Alberta. After a heated debate, his motion was defeated 139 to 196.

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Cost of Climate Change

Global Average Temperatures Of Select Nations: A Report Card

While the world has already reached the threshold of a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures, many scientists believe it is still possible to get back on track. According to the 2023 UN Emissions Gap Report, this would require a 42% cut in our emissions. It would take a 28% reduction to keep emissions below 2.0°C by the end of this century. A tool on the Berkeley Earth website shows each nation’s emissions in 2022, their current trajectory by 2100 and where it could be if all net zero pledges are met. 

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Cost of Climate Change

The Quadra Project – A Moral Dilemma

We don’t usually consider the moral implications of our carbon dioxide emissions, but an article in The Economist (December 23, 2023) presents this issue in the bluntest of terms. How many people are dying as a result of our personal contribution to the global warming crisis?

The mathematics to calculate this are not complicated. Consider the per capita emissions of each country in the world, count the number of people globally who die as a direct consequence of climate change, and it’s possible to determine the responsibility that each person has for the death of others.

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