2025 CCICED Issues Paper

The 2025 Issues Paper presents an issue-by-issue assessment of the global green transition at a time of escalating ecological tipping points and exceptional geopolitical and economic turbulence.

It examines escalating climate, biodiversity, and pollution tipping points based on the latest Earth system science and public health evidence; growing international turbulence marked by trade protectionism, rising debt, weakened multilateral institutions, and constrained fiscal space in developing countries; and the accelerating green transition driven by rapid advances in renewable energy, climate finance, grid modernization, and low-carbon industrial innovation.

Across each issue area, the paper highlights implications for China and the international community, with a focus on just transition, stranded asset risks, whole-of-society engagement, and evolving opportunities for international cooperation.

Document Type: Issues Papers Year: 2025 Phase: Phase VII (2022-2027)