#03: For 2022, China Wants To Balance Climate Ambitions With Energy Security

State planner’s 2022 outlook prioritizes energy security, announces energy regulation reform, lowers enthusiasm for nuclear power, and hints at changes for overseas coal plants.

Today, 2022’s “Two Sessions” wrapped up in Beijing. Over the last eight days, major draft documents were reviewed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) in smaller group meetings before being adopted, with mostly minor adjustments, through a plenary vote earlier today.

Among the most important documents of every year’s Two Sessions is the “Plan on Natio…