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China
Rhodium Group’s China practice supports leaders in the public, corporate, and financial sectors with data-driven analysis of China’s economy, policy dynamics, and commercial ties with the world.
Energy & Climate
Rhodium Group’s Energy & Climate practice analyzes the effects of policy and market developments on greenhouse gas emissions and energy systems, and provides actionable information about the impacts of climate change.
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We assess which options for powering data centers genuinely accelerate the energy transition, which undermine progress, and which merely participate in trends that are taking place anyway, using the new Transition Acceleration Framework.
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We dig into what’s been happening in Southeast Asia and India—regions that have absorbed the most solar manufacturing investment outside of the US, Europe, and China since 2018—and explore what these trends mean for broader diversification.
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In the first quarter of 2026, clean energy and transportation investment in the United States totaled $61 billion, a 3% decline from Q4 2025 and a 9% decline from Q1 2025.
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Global clean tech manufacturing investment has moderated after a decade of extraordinary growth. China and the US were the primary drivers of that rise and the subsequent pullback—though the nature of each country's decline differs significantly.
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European and G7 leaders came together over the past week to discuss China, among other topics. In the run-up to the European Council meeting in Brussels on June 18-19, it looked like the EU might be on the verge of a major shift in its approach to Beijing.…
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As China and other countries engage in new forms of resource nationalism—attempting to control key industrial inputs at home—the results are strained global supply chains and new constraints on China’s growth.
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Chinese overseas clean tech investment is growing but not as large as some headlines suggest, according to new data on FDI by Chinese companies abroad across the EV, solar PV, and wind turbine value chains.
Report
Building on a long-standing collaboration between Rhodium Group and MERICS, this report summarizes China’s investment footprint in the EU-27 and the UK in 2025, analyzing policy developments and the shifting patterns in China’s FDI.
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