Does China have a Plan B for the environment?

Maybe. Continued growth in greenhouse gas emissions is a condition for the Chinese Communists' hold on power, but climate disruption in response to emissions growth threatens to destabilise it. Geoengineering has immediate appeal as a way out of this catch-22. Read more

Spraying sulphate aerosols could mask warming and cool the planet within weeks, although it would not solve the core problem