CHINA

Chen, C., & Liu, R. (2025). Diverging governance of climate-related health risks in China and the United States: insights from mass media discourse. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2594594

Wang, J., & Zheng, X. (2025). Legal regulation of environmental risks associated with offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage in China. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2594595

Wang, B., Quan, Y., & Duan, M. (2025). Enterprise responses to China’s national emissions trading system: evidence from a nationwide survey. Climate Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2591879

Liu, Y., Cheng, J., Li, Y., Zhang, L., & Li, J. (2025). Can government environmental auditing promote local low-carbon innovation? Evidence from China. Climate Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2570742

Shi, Z., Li, M., Cui, Y., & Deng, X. (2025). Carbon emissions reduction of cropland management is substantially greater than carbon sequestrations of cropland abandonment in the North China Plain. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2542339

Liu, C., Zhang, D., & Geng, H. (2025). Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2539138

Tan, X., Cai, X., Cheng, Y., & Yan, H. (2025). Critical policies for China’s carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2533953

Yu, L., Sun, K., Huang, H., Deng, W., & Tan, R. (2025). Climate policy landscape and networks in China from 2000 to 2022. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2521485

Vetőné Mózner, Z., Dobos, I., & Csutora, M. (2025). Assessing the costs of fossil dependency: an integrated model for carbon costs across economic sectors in China and Germany. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2507213

Zheng, L., Du, Z., & Lin, B. (2025). Afforestation for climate change mitigation: how impactful is China’s fiscal policy? Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2517638

Qi, S., Zhang, W., Li, K., Li, X., & Gui, Z. (2025). Does environmental regulation promote energy market integration? Evidence from China’s carbon emission trading pilot. Climate Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2455090

Zhang, Z., Zhou, W., Hui, G., Hunt, J., Zhang, X. B., Ren, H., & Qin, P. (2024). Evaluating the CO₂ emissions implications of hydrogen energy policies in North China based on a dedicated hydrogen planning model. Climate Policy, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2443451

Yu, R., Zhang, D., & Zhang, X. (2024). Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2413856

Hu, Z., & Li, W. (2024). Reducing Carbon emissions through pipelines? Evidence from the West-East Gas Pipeline Project. Climate Policy, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2413863

Fan, D., Zhao, M., & Wang, K. (2024). Do impoverished regions benefit from climate change mitigation measures? Evidence from the Forest Carbon Sink Project in China. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2418947

Jiang, W., Wang, K. L., & Jiang, N. (2024). 1 + 1 > 2? The synergistic effect of carbon emissions reduction policies: empirical evidence from China. Climate Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2424230

Zeng, Y., Faure, M. G., & Feng, S. (2024). Localization vs globalization of carbon emissions trading system (ETS) rules: how will China’s national ETS rules evolve? Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2427724

Shen, M., Yang, M., & Xing, L. (2024). Do climate change policies affect labour market distortions? Empirical evidence from China’s low-carbon city pilots. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2428757

Peng, L., Li, S., Tan, J., & Zhang, X. (2024). Peer effects affect the adaptation behaviour of rural residents to geohazards in China: a new policy pathway. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2401852

Gao, W., & Xie, D. (2024). Pathways towards low-carbon sustainable agriculture: how farmland size affects net carbon emissions. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2385488

Wu, Q., Smits, M., & Zhu, A. L. (2024). Strategic transparency under authoritarian environmentalism: information disclosure and the role of environmental NGOs in China’s national emission trading scheme. Climate Policy, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2386380

Zhang, H., Liang, H., Zhang, D., Huang, J., & Zhang, X. (2024). Options to enhance China’s national emission trading system design for carbon neutrality. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2375586

Chen, P., Zhang, Y., & Chu, Z. (2024). Exploring the influence of financial development on climate physical risk: insights from China. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2374319

Zhu, M., Smith, S. J., Chen, M., Evans, M., Chai, Q., Teng, F., … Wang, Y. (2024). A comparative review of methane policies of the United States and China in the context of US – China climate cooperation. Climate Policy, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2366902

Gao, J., Hua, G., Huo, B., Randhawa, A., & Li, Z. (2024). Pilot policies for low-carbon cities in China: a study of the impact on green finance development and energy carbon efficiency. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2361703

Gao, M., Song, M., Liu, Y., & Chen, J. (2024). The impact of carbon emission trading schemes on China’s economic inequalities between and within urban and rural areas based on the satellite data: a county-level analysis. Climate Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2358986

Xue, Y., & Yun, X. (2024). The impact of collateral-based monetary policy on green financing cost: an analysis of the People’s Bank of China’s approach. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2356811

Cao, J., Wang, Y., & Liu, H. (2024). Stock market reaction to new energy vehicle industry development plan: an event study in China. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2353143

Gongbu Zeren, Jing Tan, Zhou Zheng, Menglin Li & Fan Yang (2023) Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2290030

Xueping Wu, Wenhai Qiu & Shihong Guo (2023) Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2282481

Xiaoran Li, Philipp Pattberg & Oscar Widerberg (2023) China’s climate governance from 2009 to 2019: motivations, instruments, actors, and geopolitics, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2260352

Jianhui Cong, Weiqiang Zhang, Hongjuan Guo & Yongbin Zhao (2023) Possible green-technology innovation motivated by China’s pilot carbon market: new evidence from city panel data, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2273939

Fanglei Zhong, Jingwen Tian, Chenxi Zhao, Shuai Zha, Xiao Chen & Yuhan Zhang (2023) Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China’s energy transition, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261894

Fan Dai, Fredrich Kahrl, Jessica A. Gordon, Jennifer Perron, Zhinan Chen, Zhu Liu, Ying Yu, Biqing Zhu, Yingxin Xie, Ye Yuan, Yifan Hu & Yulun Wu (2023) U.S.-China coordination on carbon neutrality: an analytical framework, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2200379

Jian Shao & Ping Huang (2023) The policy mix of green finance in China: an evolutionary and multilevel perspective, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2202181

Na Ni, Dongrui Wu, Xiaofeng Xie, Yingtong Chen, Zhui Jian, Jincheng Qiu & Peichang Zhang (2023) Foundations as sustainability partners: climate philanthropy finance flows in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2169235

Jiahai Yuan, Xiaowen Yang, Yiou Zhou & Jian Zhang (2023) The challenge of just transition in China’s coal power sector: a city-level employment vulnerability assessment, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2149453

Renjun Shen, Shiqian Huang & Shubin Yang (2023) Regional industrial redistribution and carbon emissions: a dynamic analysis for China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2161980

Wenji Zhou, Hongtao Ren, Chenfeng Zhang, Yadong Yu, Yunfei Cheng, Xiangping Hu & Bing Zhu (2022) The effects of structural and technical change on China’s industrial CO₂ emissions pathways under uncertainty, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2147130

Jinkai Yu & Yan Wang (2022) Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2142493

Shihong Guo (2022) Exploring low-carbon pilot city policy implementation: evidence from China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2140096

Xiamin Fan, Heliang Huang, Kunming Li, Chia-Hsun Chang & Wenming Shi (2022) Spatial threshold effect of tax competition on carbon dioxide emissions intensity in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2137098

Yongchi Ma & Yong Jiang (2022) Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2131503

ZhongXiang Zhang, Yalei Cui & Zengkai Zhang (2022) Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2132200

Zhijiu Yang & Daqian Shi (2022) Towards carbon neutrality: the impact of innovative city pilot policy on corporate carbon intensity in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2124224

Jiekuan Zhang & Yan Zhang (2022) How emissions trading affects income inequality: evidence from China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2099789

Jianyun Hou & Runsheng Yin (2022) How significant a role can China’s forest sector play in decarbonizing its economy?, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2098229

Alex Clark, Philippe Benoit & Jonathan Walters (2022) Government shareholders, wasted resources and climate ambitions: why is China still building new coal-fired power plants?, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2062285

Jianjun Wang, Ran Wang, Li Li & Jia Dong (2022) The market for electric vehicles in China: modelling the abolition of policy incentives, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2063246

Vasundhara Saravade, Xingxing Chen, Olaf Weber & Xianzhong Song (2022) Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2064803

Junming Zhu, Zhangming Ge, Jiali Wang, Xiao Li & Can Wang (2022) Evaluating regional carbon emissions trading in China: effects, pathways, co-benefits, spillovers, and prospects, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2054765

Mathias Lund Larsen & Lars Oehler (2022) Clean at home, polluting abroad: the role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2040409

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Lili Li, Ping Qin & Xiao-bing Zhang (2021) Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.2009432

Simon Dikau & Ulrich Volz (2021) Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.2012122

Jingyuan Xu & Yue Zhang (2021) Has the international climate regime promoted climate justice? Evidence from Clean Development Mechanism projects in China, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.2008294

Weirong Zhang, Yiou Zhou, Zhen Gong, Junjie Kang, Changhong Zhao, Zhixu Meng, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang & Jiahai Yuan (2021) Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.1953433

Anastasis Giannousakis, Lavinia Baumstark & Elmar Kriegler (2020) En route to China’s mid-century climate goal: comparison of emissions intensity versus absolute targets, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1798734

Banban Wang, Anatole Boute & Xiujie Tan (2020) Price stabilization mechanisms in China’s pilot emissions trading schemes: design and performance, Climate Policy, 20:1, 46-59, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1680338

Junfeng Wang, Yaqing Wu, Yue Zhao, Shutong He, Zhanfeng Dong & Wenguang Bo (2019) The population structural transition effect on rising per capita CO₂ emissions: evidence from China, Climate Policy, 19:10, 1250-1269, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1664381

Tancrède Voituriez, Wang Yao & Mathias Lund Larsen (2019) Revising the ‘host country standard’ principle: a step for China to align its overseas investment with the Paris Agreement, Climate Policy, 19:10, 1205-1210, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1650702

Thomas Stoerk, Daniel J. Dudek & Jia Yang (2019) China’s national carbon emissions trading scheme: lessons from the pilot emission trading schemes, academic literature, and known policy details, Climate Policy, 19:4, 472-486, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1568959

Hong Lu, Caixia Wang, Qionghui Li, Ryan Wiser & Kevin Porter (2019) Reducing wind power curtailment in China: comparing the roles of coal power flexibility and improved dispatch, Climate Policy, 19:5, 623-635, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1546164

Li Li, Jianjun Wang, Brian Ó Gallachóir, Hua Cai & Jian Zhang (2019) Energy-intensive manufacturing sectors in China: policy priorities for achieving climate mitigation and energy conservation targets, Climate Policy, 19:5, 598-610, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1546162

Yingying Zeng, Stefan E. Weishaar & Hans H. B. Vedder (2018) Electricity regulation in the Chinese national emissions trading scheme (ETS): lessons for carbon leakage and linkage with the EU ETS, Climate Policy, 18:10, 1246-1259, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1426553

Xi Yang & Fei Teng (2018) Air quality benefit of China’s mitigation target to peak its emission by 2030, Climate Policy, 18:1, 99-110, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1244762

Tin Fai Kwok, Yuan Xu, Xiao Liu & Yee Leung (2018) The impacts of economic structure on China’s carbon dioxide emissions: an analysis with reference to other East Asian economies, Climate Policy, 18:10, 1235-1245, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2017.1418282

For further reading, see also our:

Special Supplement: National-level Carbon Emissions Trading in China: Challenges and Prospects, Supplement 1, 2018, and

Special Thematic Section: Climate Policy in China, Issue 4, 2017