On September 21, 2019, at the 10th China Energy Economics and Management Academic Conference held in Shanghai, Elsevier's new issue, Energy and Climate Change, held a press conference. The journal was co-edited by Professor Wei Yiming from Beijing Institute of Technology and Professor Leon Clarke of the University of Maryland.

　　At the launch conference, Prof. Wei Yiming, editor-in-chief of Energy and Climate Change, introduced the history of the journal and the goals and scope of the journal.He said that unlike other journals in the same field, Energy and Climate Change has its own specific goals and scope to provide a platform for exchanges in research areas such as energy production and storage, climate change reasons, energy technologies, climate change, and energy and climate policies, to promote rapid communication and dialogue between scientists, engineers, economists and policy makers working in the field of energy and climate change.As editor-in-chief of the journal, he hoped that the journal will lead the development of international energy and climate change in the field of academic research and scientific research in the future. He believed that under the joint efforts of the editorial team, reviewers and authors, the journal will definitely become an important platform for academic exchanges in the field of energy and climate change, and contribute to the sustainable development of mankind.