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Mar 25, 2025

Carbon markets

Carbon credit auditors suspended for failures in sham rice-farming offsets

Verra has taken unprecedented action against four certification bodies that overlooked integrity problems with the projects. But the worthless credits still need to be compensated

Mar 3, 2025

Science

Countries fail again to decide timing of key IPCC climate science reports

China, Saudi Arabia and India pushed back against a proposal to align the IPCC flagship reports with the timeline of the global stocktake of climate action

Mar 27, 2025

Q&A: China set to stay the course on green policies, despite Trump

China expert Rebecca Nadin of ODI Global tells Climate Home that Beijing will likely shrug off the US president’s attacks on climate action and trade relations

Dec 19, 2024

Investigations

How Shell greenwashed gas with sham Chinese carbon credits

Exclusive: Shell used rice-farming offsets for “carbon neutral” LNG campaign – but farmers and local authorities said no project activities took place

Aug 30, 2024

Carbon markets

Verra axing of Shell’s rice-farming carbon credits in China fuels integrity fears

The carbon market standard found “serious” quality issues with the projects, prompting questions about their initial approval

Jun 27, 2024

Finance

UK’s Labour promises “solidarity” with poorer nations on climate – but no new cash

Labour’s shadow foreign minister says cost-of-living crisis means some climate finance must come from outside rich governments’ budgets

Jun 17, 2024

Clean Energy Frontier

Lithium tug of war: the US-China rivalry for Argentina’s white gold

As global competition hots up to secure lithium supplies for batteries, China is boosting its investments in Argentina while the US courts President Javier Milei

Nov 17, 2022

Politics

China’s surprise visit to US-EU event hints at cooperation on methane

China, the world’s largest methane emitter, is yet to sign a pledge to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas 30% by 2030

Aug 23, 2022

News

China hit by longest and strongest heatwave on record

Millions of Chinese people are suffering as intense heat drags on for more than two months, bringing drought, power shortages, wildfires and crop failures

Aug 17, 2022

News

China responds coolly to US climate bill, rejecting a call to resume cooperation

China’s foreign ministry questioned the US’ ability to deliver on its promises, calling for more climate finance and an end to trade sanctions

Aug 12, 2022

Politics

China-US climate “oasis” turns to desert – Climate Weekly

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Aug 8, 2022

News

US-China climate working group cancelled after Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

Talks on topics like methane cuts, forests, clean power and action in cities have been cancelled after a diplomatic spat over Taiwan

Apr 25, 2022

Energy

China’s coal miners face a challenge to capture leaked methane

China has committed to cut methane emissions in a deal with the US but a lack of robust monitoring and expensive capture technologies are barriers

Feb 9, 2022

News

Cooling towers, fake snow: What the Beijing Winter Olympics says about climate change

The spectacle of fake snow and an old steel mill’s cooling towers has sparked climate debate among Olympics-watchers

Mar 5, 2021

Energy

China makes no shift away from coal in five-year plan as it ‘crawls’ to carbon neutrality

Beijing set out incremental increases in climate targets to 2025, allowing for continued expansion of “clean” coal, to the disappointment of climate watchers

Sep 30, 2020

News

China host of major nature talks fails to step up at UN biodiversity summit

Campaigners had hoped President Xi would surprise the world again this week with tough measures to reverse biodiversity loss. They were left disappointed

Mar 16, 2020

News

Coronavirus: China’s economic slowdown curbs deadly air pollution

Premature deaths from air pollution in China could fall by 50,000-100,000 if economic downturn lasts a year, study estimates

Jun 6, 2018

News

China should consider increasing Paris climate pledge early – government thinktank

Influential agency recommends China, which is likely to beat its 2030 target for cutting carbon, revisit the pledge it made to the UN deal

Apr 15, 2016

News

Renminbi power: Will China’s wallet shape the planet?

China has big financial firepower. It must channel it towards low carbon through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to lead from the front on climate

Mar 17, 2016

News

China five-year plan hints at deeper carbon cuts

NEWS: World’s largest carbon polluter may arrest rising emissions sooner than thought, says five-year economic plan, but details on boosting renewables remain light