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China has significantly increased its coal power capacity, reviving concerns about its climate-changing carbon emissions

A new report says China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade

Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined

Despite the energy crisis sparked by the Ukraine war, a phasing out of coal continued across the world in 2022, according to a new report by the NGO Global Energy Monitor. Everywhere except China, where new coal production capacity under development increased, offsetting the gains in the rest of the…

World needs to stop building new plants and close existing ones at almost five times the current rate to meet Paris agreement goals

China permitted the equivalent of two new coal plants a week last year according to a new report. The country is also rapidly expanding its renewable energy.

Report finds four new offshore depots would emit around three times what the entire US emits each year, pushing world closer to climate catastrophe

Developers hope the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels will empower activists and investors to hold governments to account.

As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from other countries and convert it into heating fuel