What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South

A climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament

Originally published on Global Voices

A busy street in Karachi, Pakistan. Image from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here.

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