The world is currently facing two crises of potentially immense proportions: COVID-19 and climate change. The response to both must be global, urgent and on great scale, argue the authors of this paper, as they outline the need for a sustainable recovery, and also the importance of China's role. Read more
This paper sets out the role for the coordinated development of clean, compact and connected (CCC) cities alongside the restructuring of existing metropolitan areas, and describes the necessary drivers of structural change, in the economic recovery phase in China. Read more
Nicholas Stern explains why President Xi’s historic pledge to cut China's emissions to net-zero by 2060 could prove to be a key milestone on the path to a healthier, safer and more prosperous future. Read more
The authors in this policy insight set out a number of action areas for enabling China’s 14th Plan to embody high-quality development and strong, sustainable, resilient and inclusive growth in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
This paper examines the role of investment in physical, human, natural and social capital in the new phase of growth China is entering. It provides the beginnings of an analytical framework for key elements of this new growth story, examining how a focus on the four types of capital can help deliver prosperity through China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and Belt and Road Initiative. Read more
The first of two papers that offer an outline of strategies and policies for an innovative, sustainable and low-carbon approach to China’s development, this paper offers an approach that could spell out a new development strategy for the country as the 21st century progresses, to inform decision-making for China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Read more
China can use its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis to help lead the world in a resource-efficient and low-carbon revolution, if it avoids locking itself, and the Belt and Road Initiative countries (BRI), into the technologies and infrastructure of the past, finds two new reports published today (22 April). Read more
Nicholas Stern explains how China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) will be of particular importance to global efforts to tackle climate change. Read more
Nicholas Stern comments on concerns raised that China's efforts to tackle climate change may be derailed by slowing economic growth. Read more
The Climate Action Summit, hosted on 23 September at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, succeeded in... Read more
