Introducing: The Climate Question: China's green energy revolution
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
China is installing solar panels and wind turbines so fast that its greenhouse gases emissions may now have peaked. If this trend is confirmed, it would be a major milestone in the fight against climate change because China is the world's largest polluter. The BBC’s Beijing Correspondent Laura Bicker has travelled across China to see the country’s clean energy revolution first hand. She’s visited solar farms in the deserts of Inner Mongolia and in the tea plantations of Yunnan. Laura even discovered a huge lake with panels floating on the surface!
To hear more, search for The Climate Question wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.1 | Can I just say? |
| 0:07.6 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:11.7 | So nice. |
| 0:12.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:14.8 | Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling. |
| 0:17.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:20.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:22.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:27.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:31.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:32.8 | So if you love sport, a passion. |
| 0:34.4 | It's almost like a religion. |
| 0:35.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Greer Jackson from the Climate Question podcast and every week we scour the world to see how climate change is affecting |
| 0:52.5 | our planet and ask what can we do about it. |
| 0:55.8 | We thought you'd like to hear this episode about China's Clean Energy Revolution, where we |
| 1:01.1 | speak to the BBC's correspondent in Beijing, Laura Bicker. You can listen to the whole episode |
| 1:06.7 | right here, but to hear more from us, search for the climate question wherever you get your BBC |
| 1:12.6 | podcasts. And you can also find us on the BBC World Service YouTube channel. |
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