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China has joined Chile and Belgium in the bid to host the secretariat of the High Seas Treaty. 💬 The bid “marks a significant escalation in China’s engagement,” says Li Shuo of China Climate Hub. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/4mUEbM8 ✍️ Jiang Mengnan, Daniel Cressey, Regina Lam

In 2023, the Zhuangshang “solar” village of the Shanxi province was named a “zero-carbon energy demonstration village”. Solar villages are not all sunshine, however. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/KRJfoyA ✍️ Zhang Wei

In an increasingly climate-sensitive world, Southeast Asia approaches a critical juncture. Climate action, or inaction, can shape its economic credibility and reputation. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/xt4EG0E ✍️ Muyi Yang, Putra Adhiguna

“Red-tagging” occurs when government task forces accuses individuals and groups involved in community projects, such as disaster relief and delivering solar-powered water pumps, of having links with communism or terrorism. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/AyGFLmw ✍️ Raymund Villanueva

There is no water crisis, we have a bigger problem — water bankruptcy. "No country is immune from the risk of water bankruptcy." @KavehMadani tells Dialogue Earth. 🔗: loom.ly/wVbDfV4

Climate adaptation in China isn’t only top-down. From flood-hit villages to government message boards, citizens are organising, petitioning and planning for climate risks long before policy catches up. ✒️Niu Yuhan loom.ly/Yc9xxdA

🚗 🪫 Electric vehicle sales in Brazil are rising fast, driven largely by Chinese brands. But a major question remains: who is responsible for used batteries once they reach the end of their life? ✍️Lilian Caramel loom.ly/1r3nYVU

China’s footprint in Latin America is changing fast. Loans are drying up, investments are shifting, and US–China tensions are pushing governments to rethink their alliances. EV tech and targeted financing are now doing the heavy lifting. ✍️ @ferminkoop loom.ly/Xfc98JM

💧 As pistachio farming expands in desert regions such as Argentina’s San Juan province, its growth is running up against a severe water crisis. How sustainable is this increasingly popular crop? ✍️ & 📷: @jorgelahiba & @celinamuttilove loom.ly/JbVT18k

On 7 January the U.S president Donald Trump cut ties with 66 international bodies as he continued a push to dismantle US involvement in global efforts to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, as well as wider multilateralism. loom.ly/h-OwSAM

Bolivia’s new president wants to balance relations with China while opening up more to the US. “In the name of saving the crisis, we will end up raffling off or sacrificing areas, ecosystems and communities” @OsCampanini of @cedib_com. ✍️ @rociolloret loom.ly/baBhiZU

“We know that the planet will find a way to survive. The question is if humanity will cope with the transition” - Hana Jurikova, University of St Andrews 🔗 loom.ly/Njtx8U8 ✍️ @anna83nap

"Participating in the COP as an Indigenous communicator is like walking with feet in two different worlds" writes Shuar journalist Dunio Chiriap Jimbicti (@dunioch). loom.ly/fcF3F9s

In 2026, Türkiye will be host and president of COP31, while Australia takes on the role of “president of negotiations”. If executed well, next year’s co-presidency could provide the creative diplomacy and bridge-building climate negotiations need. 🔗: loom.ly/lHMqW6Y

China’s environmental role is expanding rapidly, although not always coherently. Strategically engaging can help shape China's emerging environmental leadership, write two scholars of Chinese environmental policy 🔗: loom.ly/wSGX1dI

Amidst the fiasco of COP30, China drawn attention. The largest developing country is shifting from reacting climate impacts to proactively adapting to them. Experts from China and elsewhere weigh in on China’s adaptation strategy. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/x1xSPnw ✍️ Lin Zi

China finds itself in a complex position. China is not obliged to contribute to the USD 300 public finance pot. But acording to experts at COP30, overseas investments by Chinese companies are integral to the road to USD 1.3 trillion. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/l3eC57g ✍️ Qiwen Cui

Thank you to everyone who helped Dialogue Earth make a big splash over the past 12 months. We hope the year ahead is prosperous and happy for you and for all the other organisms on Earth. Illustration: Sunhee Park

Thank you to everyone who helped Dialogue Earth make a big splash over the past 12 months. We hope the year ahead is prosperous and happy for you and for all the other organisms on Earth. Illustration: Sunhee Park