As the economy surged in 2017, experts are divided over whether emissions stayed flat. It could mean pollution has peaked more than a decade earlier than expected
Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, replaced 8,000 petrol-powered taxis with electric vehicles in a single year. What did we learn?
French president did not announce any new climate initiatives with Xi Jinping on China visit, but his efforts to learn the language went viral
The emissions trading scheme will initially cover only the power sector, not heavy industry as planned, but will nonetheless become the biggest in the world
Top green finance official Ma Jun tells a conference in Paris that China wants international support to clean up its investments abroad
After an anti-air pollution drive left many without heat, China’s government has relaxed a ban on coal across 28 northern cities
On a state visit to Beijing, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau struck a deal that will weave climate action into a potential trade agreement
Urban demands for cleaner air have left residents of surrounding towns without heating and cooking as coal systems are ripped out and gas supply falters
Australia’s former prime minister talks about the failure of his country’s climate policy, the rise of China and the Carmichael coal mine
US-Sino relations viewed as too important to be upset over climate change, say observers close to the Chinese government
While India has loudly criticised a decision on the commitments rich countries made up to 2020, their partner in the ‘like-minded’ bloc was not like-minded
China, India and other emerging economies are opposed to any mandatory raising of national climate pledges before 2020
Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar overseas investment strategy has not caught up with his green rhetoric, environmentalists warn as countries head to Bonn climate summit
Indian prime minister says renewables are “particularly important” to the development of five nations meeting in Xiamen
A valuable fungus reputed to be an aphrodisiac has been disappearing from the mountains of Nepal, taking with it a valuable source of income
Car giant’s move away from the internal combustion engine will fuel Chinese dominance in emerging clean technology
In the week China’s president called for development banks to support low emissions in poor countries, China Development Bank loaned $1.5bn to coal in South Africa
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
Gas imports to Europe from the US and massive future coal burning in China undermine the rhetoric of the world’s new self-proclaimed climate spearheads
The ten-page document affirms, in extraordinarily strong language, that the EU and China intend to make the US irrelevant