The world's most polluted city has also imposed curbs on vehicle use from next week, and has appealed to neighbouring states to halt crop burning

Petrostates and oil, gas and coal companies still intend to keep on making trillions of dollars a year by increasing production

"If China’s near-term growth were to slow by another percentage point, this would reduce 2030 coal demand by an amount almost equal to the volume currently consumed by the whole of Europe."

Greenpeace says firms like SAIC Motor and Great Wall Motor are phasing out fossil-fuel cars faster than most legacy manufacturers

China’s emergency management ministry has revealed the huge cost of natural disasters, which killed 499 people, in the first nine months of 2023

Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta are at loggerheads over the source of the cloud which Malaysia blames on Indonesian forest and land fires

Monitoring the impact of global warming has taken on new urgency after one of the warmest summers in the northern hemisphere this year

Beijing’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will tell the COP28 climate meeting new energy sources aren’t reliable enough yet to replace coal and oil

Nearly 5% of Hebei's 74.2 million residents were affected by the floods, with 2 million people displaced and over 40,000 homes destroyed

The progress made on reducing emissions intensity could help India avert pressure by developed nations to stop using coal, officials said

More than 1.2 million people have been evacuated in the northern province of Hebei because of rains from Typhoon Doksuri

The country has been reeling from a series of extreme weather events since April with severe storms now set to sweep across some regions