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China becoming biggest source of renewable exports

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6943 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

China is making huge investments in eco-friendly technology and is quickly becoming the biggest source of renewable exports around the globe. Also, a special tribunal in Bangladesh sentences ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death over deadly crackdowns on a student-led uprising last year. And, Equal Pay Day draws attention to the wage gap between men and women in Europe. Plus, a new study finds that the average human spends 78 minutes a day on the move.

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0:00.0

In Bangladesh, a verdict for the former prime minister.

0:08.2

This is a measure of justice which they have been waiting for for a year.

0:12.7

I'm Marco Werman.

0:13.9

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

0:15.1

Today the latest from Bangladesh on a historic day.

0:19.0

Plus, a new player is taking a leading role on the way to reducing emissions.

0:23.5

China wants to step up, and China wants to be able to say that it is reducing the negative effects

0:29.8

of climate change. A report from China where there's a green revolution. In the U.S.,

0:35.4

international student enrollment has taken a dip. The fallout will hit

0:39.3

hardest at schools that rely on international students to offset declining domestic enrollment.

0:44.8

And new insight into the human psyche. We like to travel for a certain amount, but not too much.

0:52.2

That's all ahead today on the world.

0:56.9

This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thanks for joining us. We begin today with

1:02.8

climate news heading into week two of COP 30, the United Nations Summit on climate change in

1:07.8

Belém, Brazil. Benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions play a big

1:11.8

part in these talks. One country where carbon emissions have been flat or trending downward for a year

1:17.4

and a half now is China. The country once synonymous with over-reliance on fossil fuels and cities

1:23.3

famously shrouded in smog. Now China is positioning itself as a world leader on renewables.

1:30.2

The world's Jeremy Siegel gets us going with his reporting from Shenzhen, China, where he learned

1:34.7

that reducing emissions is not the country's only reason for going green.

1:39.7

I am outside of the convention center in downtown Shenzhen, and I've never seen anything like this.

1:47.4

It's like a huge parking lot combined with a gas station, the biggest gas station you've ever seen in your life.

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