My latest, for Foreign Affairs, written with Sam Winter-Levy and Lauri Myllyvirta: 'Why Ukraine Should Keep Striking Russian Oil Refineries - Washington’s Fears About Energy Markets Are Misplaced'. Hitting refineries drives global oil prices down, not up.
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-uk…

Everything that I've written about competition as a force for climate applies. The main thing is not asking whether more adversarial relations between China and other countries are good or bad for the climate - no one is going to fundamentally change their geopolitics because of…

China's 3.9% target for reducing carbon intensity this year is substantially stronger than the 2.5% 'energy intensity' target but still allows emissions to increase by more than 1%, and doesn't close the gap to the 2025 or 2030 target. In fact it's exactly the required annual…

One of the best discussions I've heard in awhile on China's internal politics and decarbonization - so much new context and food for thought from Lauri Myllyvirta

New article from Li Shuo_ASPI and I on China's upcoming new climate targets for 2035 - these will make or break the credibility of China's climate effort for the next decade, and preparations are in full swing.

That air quality improved at all amid sharp increases in fossil fuel consumption during this winter is an achievement for environmental regulators, but clearly the increase in dirty energy continues to hamper China's fight against air pollution.

This piece borders on misinformation as it fails to even mention that domestic coal production fell 4% in the first quarter and that's the obvious driver of imports. Most remarkably, it completely fails to mention solar and wind which are now delivering most if not all power…