China is talking the talk on climate change, but its buy-in to the ‘green trade’ narrative is more selective. It eschews many of the green trade tools favoured by the EU/US, its policies are closer aligned to developing countries and serve its regional interests. Still, it has its own tools to add to the global ‘green trade’ toolkit: green tech, green manufactured goods and improved efficiency of supply chains are potential contributions to a global ‘green trade’ strategy. As things stand, it looks set to follow its own path and has yet to set out what shade of ‘green’ it wants its future trading profile to be.