Look Closer: China is Quietly Making Moves on Cultivated Meat

With the world’s most important global climate summit (COP26) just around the corner, all eyes are on China—the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions as well as the largest investor in renewable energy technologies.

There is no pathway to achieve the climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement without changing how we produce protein, but encouraging new evidence suggests that Chinese leaders understand the massive benefits of making meat from plants and growing it directly from cells.