The little green look: China’s energy revolution
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The Economist
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
America has boycotted this week’s COP climate talks, but China has sent a giant delegation. The world’s biggest polluter is increasingly pivotal to tackling global warming. Why young protesters around the world brandish a pirate flag. And since sports leagues cannot stamp out pirate broadcasters, they are monetising their viewers.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:16.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.0 | Thank you. weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. This summer, young people in many countries took to the streets to protest about economic |
| 0:29.9 | hardship or political freedom. A surprising thing united those demonstrators. They brandished |
| 0:36.0 | a pirate flag with a grinning skull in a straw hat. |
| 0:41.3 | And for as long as the telecom's infrastructure has been able to handle it, people have been pirating live sport broadcasts. |
| 0:48.3 | At last, the rights holders have got wise and are adapting some old advice. If you can't beat them, get them to make content for you. |
| 0:56.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:07.0 | This week, the 30th COP Climate Summit began in Brazil. |
| 1:13.6 | But for the first time in its history, there was no delegation from America. |
| 1:18.6 | Who's making up the numbers? |
| 1:21.6 | China. |
| 1:22.6 | The country has sent more delegates than any other nation bar the hosts themselves. |
| 1:28.5 | That's linked to a broader, greener push within China. |
| 1:42.8 | Speaking to the UN recently, President Xi Jinping promised to cut carbon emissions. |
| 1:47.8 | Just 24 hours after Donald Trump called climate change a con job. |
| 1:52.9 | The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, |
| 1:59.2 | and they're heading down a path of total destruction. |
| 2:04.0 | Despite its own ravenous energy demands |
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