China

China is a unique and important player in the global decarbonization effort as the largest consumer of energy, source of greenhouse gas emissions, and both producer of and investor in clean energy capacity. The country is engaged in some of the largest and most extensive efforts to promote the transition to clean energy including storage, long-distance transmission, green energy finance, carbon pricing, distributed solar, and electric vehicles. Chinese efforts across the board will be important to monitor, as their scale and investment could provide new technologies and innovations that could be exportable to the rest of the world.