Does China Have Policies to Deal With Heat in the Future?

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I think China's government has realized that climate change is real and that they need to address it. And this is why they are also trying to build out renewables at a record pace. But the industrial sector just needs a lot of energy, and solar farms aren't there yet. Because it is an authoritarian state, it can just make decisions and then pursue them.

As devastating heat waves like the recent one in China become more common, we’re going to need new ways of talking about them. Vox’s Neel Dhanesha explains a proposal to name heat waves.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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