The US has announced preliminary tariffs to be imposed on solar panels developed by Chinese firms but exported from countries in Southeast Asia

The decision could hurt the Albanese government's chances of re-election next year – and kill Australia's chance of co-hosting a UN climate summit with island nations in 2026

Chinese companies have pumped in more than $100bn into foreign clean tech projects since 2023, research group says

The biggest chunk of the losses will likely be borne by workers in carbon-intensive sectors, which employ almost 32 million people across the world

The future of solar manufacturing in SE Asia depends on duties to be determined by US officials, but most Chinese solar suppliers have stopped shipping to the US due to the risk of retroactive tariffs

Technical talks with China had intensified to an almost daily basis and could extend beyond the end of October, a top European Commission official said

OpenAI's proposed data centres would need power equal to the output of about five nuclear reactors – at least 100 times the requirements of a standard large data centre

Battery-electric vehicles accounted for 8% of new vehicle sales in June and July of this year, while overall auto sales are set to drop 12% this month

Power demands of the likes of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia is complicating investors' love affair with tech stocks

The power pack, developed by SAIC-GM and CATL, would be the fastest charging electric vehicle battery to date

Tech giants Microsoft, Meta and Google have all made purchases of carbon offsets in the Amazon rainforest this year

A rapid explosion in AI-enabled devices, coupled with a range of other factors including climate change, natural disasters and geopolitical tensions, pose significant risks to chip supply chains