China Spent More on Clean Energy Than the Rest of the World Combined | OilPrice.com Haley Zaremba Haley Zaremba is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She has extensive experience writing and editing environmental features, travel pieces, local news in the… More Info Premium Content By Haley Zaremba – May 15, 2026, 5:00 PM CDT China accounted for more than half of the $1.1 trillion in global clean energy investment between 2019 and 2025, outspending the U.S. by more than 2-to-1. About $136 billion of China’s investment funded clean tech factories abroad, a deliberate strategy to penetrate new markets…