International: China
Diplomats assess China’s climate leadership promise
12 Jul 2017
The international community is asking itself whether China really has what it takes to lead global climate policy now the US has yielded that mantle.
ON YER BIKE: China launches smog-eating bicycles
12 Jul 2017
Commuters in China's smog-bound cities soon will be able to clean the air as they ride bicycles that inhale dirty air, clean it, and then release fresh air into the environment.
Praising China’s carbon market shows how low the bar has fallen
28 Jun 2017
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature.
Six million in China just went 100% renewable for a week
28 Jun 2017
Qinghai province in China has just used entirely renewable energy for seven days as part of a trial to prove that it is possible to use just green energy.
China's clean energy ambition floats on abandoned coal mine
13 Jun 2017
China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 480 kilometers northwest of Shanghai.
China carbon market might launch early
12 Jun 2017
China will launch its nationwide carbon emissions trading system by November at the "very earliest", according to new reports.
China promises green investment strategy
17 May 2017
China will seize opportunities for clean energy and boost science cooperation through its overseas investment strategy, president Xi Jinping said on Monday.
China busy planning ahead for life after coal
11 May 2017
China's energy policies give the world hope that the country can free itself of dirty coal, and that this day may come sooner rather than later.
GET LOST: Beijing pulls 180,000 polluting vehicles
8 May 2017
Beijing removed 180,000 old and polluting vehicles from its roads in the first four months of 2017.
China wants fish, so Africa goes hungry
5 May 2017
Of all the stresses that humans have inflicted on the world’s oceans, including pollution and global warming, industrial fishing ranks high.
China gets tough on shipping emissions
21 Apr 2017
Every year, more than 60 per cent of the world’s seaborne cargoes and 30 per cent of the world’s shipping containers pass through China’s ports, creating an air pollution problem Beijing is now trying to solve.
HIGH TIDE: Rising waters threaten China’s rising cities
11 Apr 2017
In China's Pearl River Delta, breakneck development is colliding with the effects of climate change.
Energy Australia is in court accused of greenwashing. What is the case about and why is it significant?
Fri 16 May 2025
Climate group alleges energy giant misled 400,000 customers about ‘Go Neutral’ product, arguing that carbon credits don’t actually remove emissions.
Running blind: The silencing and censoring of environmental threats to US national security
Fri 16 May 2025
Immediately after the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2025, his administration began purging environmental reports from the public record.
What Pope Leo means for global climate action and colonialism
Fri 16 May 2025
Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?
Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say
Mon 12 May 2025
Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and other states in early April and made it more likely to occur.
It’s time for Canada’s Mark Carney to think big on climate, experts say
30 Apr 2025
Even Carney’s climate background wasn’t enough to put climate action on center stage.
Coal India to set up $3 billion worth clean energy projects to boost renewable heft
Wed 14 May 2025
The world’s largest government-owned coal producer will set up clean energy projects of around 4.5 gigawatts at a cost of 250 billion rupees (about $3 billion), it said on Thursday, as it aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions from its operations.
Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
27 Feb 2025
A new 'golden passport' scheme aims to raise funds to relocate people inland as climate change raises sea levels.
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard
Tue 13 May 2025
Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?
More than 100 dead after flooding in eastern DR Congo, officials say
Thu 15 May 2025
Heavy overnight floods have washed away several villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing more than 100 people, according to local officials, in a nation suffering war and mass displacement.
Who has the right to decide what happens on indigenous lands?
7 May 2025
In Ecuador, Indigenous communities are fighting for stronger safeguards to protect their sovereignty as more oil drilling looms. A right to say no to unwanted development could revolutionize consultation processes used around the world.
Nations agree on carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero
14 Apr 2025
Nations have agreed to introduce a worldwide carbon-pricing system for international shipping to drive the sector towards net-zero emissions by 2050.
