New coal power was brought online in China – and Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Japan – while there was a slowdown in closures in Europe and the US

Big cities are the places making a real impact on cutting emissions, the head of a global cities network says in the lead-up to the climate summit in UAE, which mayors will join for the first time

Petrostates and oil, gas and coal companies still intend to keep on making trillions of dollars a year by increasing production

Beijing’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will tell the COP28 climate meeting new energy sources aren’t reliable enough yet to replace coal and oil

A failure to deal with carbon emissions could force debt-servicing costs higher – and spark credit downgrades – for some of the world’s leading nations

UN warned that climate change is progressing exponentially and has already hit India and Pakistan particularly hard

Speculation has risen that Australia's biggest power generator will review its plan to split into two, with its board due to meet on Sunday amid doubt shareholders will back the 'demerger'

The state oil and gas producer says construction is already underway on the site in eastern China which will eventually account for more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 over the next 15 years