ChinaIts 2026 clean-tech exports will avoid 450m tonnes of CO2, Brazil’s yearly emissions.
Over their lifetimes they avoid 8,400m tonnes, the US and India combined, the Carbon Brief analysis finds.
76% of that lands in the global south, 52% in south and south-east Asia, where Chinese solar displaces high-carbon grids.
A continued domestic solar slowdown could exacerbate trade tensions, the analysis says.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief
- quantifies Chinese clean-tech exports as avoiding about 450Mt CO2 abroad in 2026, roughly Brazil's annual emissions
Sources: Carbon Brief