#Energy
The Power of “Taiwan Can Green”: Energy Transition as a Discursive Response to Cross-Strait Geopolitical Tensions
The article is published as part of a joint issue “Green Synergies: Sustainability, Security and Taiwan-Europe Collaboration” between CHOICE and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Insight. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been committed to its…
From Extraction to Innovation: The EU and Taiwan in the Critical Minerals Value Chain
The article is published as part of a joint issue “Green Synergies: Sustainability, Security, and Taiwan-Europe Collaboration” between CHOICE and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Insight. As the European Union’s green transition gains momentum, ensuring the safe and sustainable…
Navigating Geopolitical Turbulence through Taiwan’s Energy Transition Policy
The article is published as part of a joint issue “Green Synergies: Sustainability, Security and Taiwan-Europe Collaboration” between CHOICE and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Insight. Taiwan’s reliance on imported fossil fuels presents a critical vulnerability…
The Dysprosium Supply Chain: A Forgotten Child in the European Wind Industry?
This article is part of a series of articles authored by young, aspiring China scholars under the Future CHOICE initiative. The European Green Deal, as part of its robust response to the triple planetary crisis…
China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids
As the EU leans into its ambitious climate goals, solar energy has become the poster child of the energy transition. On the surface, it appears to be a success story in the global race…
Strengthening Taiwan’s Deterrence: The Importance of Energy Transition
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new concern for energy security has emerged. Whereas energy transitions were previously viewed primarily through the lens of climate change, they have now become…
How China Completely Redefined a Key Energy Target
Shifting the meaning of “energy intensity” may affect the realization of China’s 2025 carbon intensity goal.
China Goes Green in Central Asia
Beijing targets Central Asia with green energy investments and eyes the boosted role of the region as a trans-Eurasian connectivity corridor amid Red Sea tensions.
Supercharged China: Cars, Batteries, and Lithium
With no internal combustion engine and no burning of fossil fuels, electric vehicles (EVs) – running solely on batteries – are coming in their billions to electrify mobility. By 2035, at least half of all global passenger vehicle sales will be for EVs, and the proportion will keep increasing. The roadmap for the global energy sector to reach carbon neutrality developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA) requires the number of EVs to increase from eleven million in 2020 to 350 million in 2030 and almost two billion by 2050. In the global race to build batteries and battery-powered cars and to get access to the vital lithium, cobalt, and nickel that go into them, China is winning hands-down.
More Renewables, More Coal: Where Are China’s Emissions Really Headed?
China’s emissions will peak when clean energy growth overtakes energy demand growth. This may happen in 2024.
China Wants the Line D Pipeline. Can Central Asia Deliver?
China is signaling that it wants to move forward with a Central Asian natural gas pipeline project that’s been discussed for decades. But does Central Asia have gas to fill the pipeline, known as…
“Depends on How You Look at It”: Russia Struggles to Explain Why “Power of Siberia 2” Is Still Not Happening
Even as Russia and China project an image of a tight partnership, the failure to reach a deal on the Power of Siberia 2 pipelines complicates Moscow’s official narrative.