Underutilisation of renewables is spurring China to switch its focus from rapidly building renewable plants to making sure more of their power gets into the grid

While many challenges remain for both countries to sustain their pivot to cleaner energy, the decline in coal-power use marks a 'historic moment', researchers say

Chinese companies making electric vehicles must commit to sell their cars at agreed minimum prices, if they want to avoid tariffs in Europe

Court denies key shareholders' move to block zinc refiner's plan to issue shares to help fund $7.4-billion smelter in the US, but they still support the US plan

Demand for renewables and data centres has caused a surge in shipments of lithium-ion storage batteries, with Chinese firms exporting more than $66 billion this year

Firms are now focusing on batteries for energy storage systems that are quickly becoming critical to the global data-centre build-out

Key to the fall in fossil fuel use is China’s increasing rapid transition to renewable energy, with wind and solar reportedly now generating more than a quarter of the country’s electricity

IMF chief urges China to make brave choices: focus on market forces and reforms that lift consumption, cut export reliance, ease trade tensions, and let property 'zombies' fall

Warmer oceans are one reason Asia is experiencing more intense storms, but some of the latest cyclones were rare, as they formed close to the equator.

Southern Thailand and Malaysia are the latest regions hit hard by flooding; losses in Thailand are estimated at up to $150 million a day

Experts say the shortage triggered by surging demand is exactly what is needed to further drive up investment in the nascent market

China has switched its lending from aid and infrastructure to "sensitive industries" in advanced economies - high‑tech sectors like chips, AI and clean energy - and the US is now the biggest recipient, a new report says