Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time

From the article:
> For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
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> The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in the latest 12 months.
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> Electricity supply from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal-power output even as demand surged, whereas previous falls were due to weak growth.
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> The analysis, based on official figures and commercial data, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable, or falling, for more than a year.
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> However, they remain only 1% below the latest peak, implying that any short-term jump could cause China’s CO2 emissions to rise to a new record.

[Emissions data shows that over the last 5 years the world other than China has had declining emissions](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=1982..latest&country=IND%7ECHN%7EOWID_WRL), so if China has finally entered structural emissions decline then there is a strong chance the world as a whole has entered structural emissions decline.

(Interestingly, [the IEA has predicted renewables and EVs would drive a CO2 emissions peak around 2025 for a few years now](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/carbon-emissions-to-peak-in-2025-in-historic-turning-point-says-iea).)