Critics said a handful of oil producers fought efforts at UN talks in Korea to cut plastic production and were only willing to act on plastic waste

Steelmakers from South Korea, India, Japan and China were among the biggest laggards in the shift to renewables, with some still depending entirely on fossil fuels for production

But the world’s second-largest economy still needs to navigate major challenges to meet its overall climate goals — the biggest being a booming demand for power

New president says Indonesia plans to build 75 GW of renewable power by 2040, and analysts say the goal seems unlikely as the country has over 250 coal power plants

Delegates adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target to help poor nations cope with climate change, but that outcome left some countries angry and disgusted

British miner AngloAmerican has sold its Australian coal mines to Peabody, the US energy firm, for up to $3.8 billion

Prices of Adani bonds fell further on Monday, while parliament was suspended amid an uproar over US charges laid against billionaire Gautam Adani, who has close ties with PM Narendra Modi

Dhaka is reviewing its deal with Adani Power, as the firm has been charging Bangladesh a rate much higher than power producers in India

COP29 hosts released a new draft of a deal that would see developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion a year by 2035, but the mood in Baku was grim on Friday

China is currently the world’s dominant supplier of clean technologies, and the EU has been uneasy over its dependence on Beijing for them

A recent deal on a UN-backed carbon market promises to move billions of dollars for climate action, but it will first need to win over sceptics

The breakthrough will remain overshadowed by the return to power of Donald Trump, who believes climate change is a hoax and aims to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement