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executive summary Strategic Drivers …

With strides made on cleaning up power supplies, the next challenge is to cut emissions from industry, buildings and transport.

According to Yang Li, deputy director of the Institute for Green Innovation and Development (iGDP), who spoke with a reporter from *China Energy News*, the report aims to track the implementation outcomes of local “dual carbon” targets and thereby provide a research foundation and decision-making support for promoting coordinated regional development and guiding localities to advance green transitions based on their own endowments and in accordance with local conditions.

This report tracks and quantitatively assesses the green and low-carbon transition of 30 Chinese provincial-level regions over the decade from 2013 to 2022 using the Subnational Low-Carbon and Green Index for China (Subnational LOGIC), which encompasses 26 indicators across four categories: carbon productivity; carbon emissions (covering energy, power, industry, buildings, transport, and agriculture); environmental conditions and land use; and policy systems and public participation. The analysis employs multiple classification frameworks—economic-geographic regions, economic development stages (Pioneer, Leading, Catching-Up, and Developing Economies), national major regional strategies, and energy development positioning—to identify structural divergences in transition patterns. It finds that scores improved across all provinces, with carbon productivity, energy, and power showing nationwide progress while transport, buildings, and industry remain key frontiers for deep decarbonization. The report also presents in-depth case studies of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Shanxi, and Hainan to examine differentiated transition pathways across economic development stages.

On June 5, 2026, the Institute for Green Innovation and Development (iGDP) released the Zero Carbon Record annual report titled “Assessment of a Decade of Progress in Green and Low-Carbon Transition Across China’s Provinces,” which focuses on the achievements, progress, changes, and divergent pathways of the green and low-carbon transition in various regions of China over the past decade.