ChinaEmissions fell 3.1% in the third quarter, the sharpest drop since 2022 lockdowns.
China’s emissions have been flat or falling for more than two years, since March 2024.
Solar, wind and nuclear added 110 terawatt hours, twice demand growth, while transport oil use fell 9% amid the Hormuz crisis.
Coal plants are still being built at near-record rates, which cuts running hours and profits, analyst Lauri Myllyvirta wrote.
The outlook turns on energy demand, clean-power growth and the government’s response to a GDP slowdown.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief
- frames the Q3 CO2 drop as Hormuz-driven oil demand loss, not clean-energy growth, noting 3.3% coal-power fall and wasted wind/solar
Sources: Carbon Brief