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

Beijing said it will reduce coal consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by about 10% from 2020 levels by 2025

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

Indian government officials have revealed New Delhi is trying to win more support for alternative routes to a net zero future, which could even include using coal

Beijing has doubled down on proposals for more coal mines to head off the threat of power blackouts across the country

Analysts fear China's renewable power generators may have to shoulder the costs of keeping under-utilised and loss-making coal power plants humming

The world's second-largest economy plans to expand the share of green energy by an average of one percentage point a year between now and 2030

In 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, new coal power plants were approved in six provinces. Beijing needed to decide these moves, it said, not state entities run by provincial governments

Less frosty ties between Beijing and Canberra could prompt a resumption of Australian coal exports to China, but that could...

Experts say China's Emissions Trading Scheme has had limited impact, as its design is flawed and Beijing is focused on generating more power. Fraud by market players was also a big concern