China is well placed to become the world’s first renewables superpower as part of profound geopolitical shifts underway as a result of the energy transition, according to a landmark report on the issue.

The rise of China and other new “renewable energy leaders”, the challenges facing fossil fuel-dominated economies and the ability of more nations to secure energy independence were among the geopolitical factors highlighted in A New World, produced by the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation.