Groups such as Greenpeace are demanding an end to single-use plastic sachets, and other robust measures as UN states and experts gather in Bangkok to discuss a global plastics treaty

Canberra gives green light to huge solar farm in country's north that will relay power to Singapore via a 4,300km underwater cable

Threat to glaciers revealed amid news of heat records in 15 nations this year, while the UN accuses fossil fuel firms of trying to slow the transition to clean energy

Funds have been dumping industrials and buying energy stocks, amid expectation the oil and gas sector will boom if Trump wins the US election, Goldman Sachs says

Economists say major intervention is needed if the country is to meet its 5% growth goal this year as speculation rises that Beijing will do more to boost consumption

China’s decision to restrict exports of antimony from mid-September could push the metal's price to $30,000 a ton, traders say

Antimony is used as a hardener in lead for storage batteries, plus alloys with lead and tin to improve solders and bullets, and in semiconductor devices

Official data on Thursday showed industrial output grew 5.1% from a year earlier, slowing from June, but retail sales rose 2.7% in July

Some 1.35 million fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were sold in July, Rho Motion market research firm said on Monday

China has admitted that the anchor of a Hong Kong-flagged vessel ripped apart an important gas pipeline from Finland to Estonia in the Baltic Sea in late 2022

The central bank will extend its policy to support companies' carbon-reduction projects for three more years – up till the end of 2027

Some 73 companies are now on the US blacklist. New additions include Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group in Hong Kong and Century Sunshine Group, which make magnesium fertilizer and alloy products.