OIES Podcast – China’s manufacturing sector carbon emissions: policies, trends, and challenges

In this episode of the OIES podcast series, Anders Hove and Edmund Downie discuss China’s manufacturing sector and its present and future energy and emissions trajectory. Edmund Downie, a 2nd-year PhD student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the author of two chapters in the Guide to Chinese Climate Policy, which the OIES China Programme published in 2022. In the podcast, Downie breaks down trends and targets for carbon emissions from the manufacturing sector; the breakdown of different greenhouse gases and which industries are responsible for non-CO2 emissions and how carbon markets and the CBAM (carbon border adjustment mechanism) could influence the trajectory of carbon emissions.

By: OIES

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