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Climate change diplomacy

Climate change diplomacy
Latest news and analysis about how different governments engage with each other over environmental policies, including competition, collaboration and negotiations.
Donald Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. Photo: TNS
US-China relations

Will Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ offer opportunities for China?

Some analysts believe the tax and spending act will ‘cause some trouble’, but others say there could be an upside for Beijing.

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War and conflict

Editorial | More than ever, we need a UN that can tackle global challenges

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United States

US House passes Trump bill, which heads to White House for president’s signature

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Climate change

Opinion | Australia should leave politics out of climate collaboration with China

Seeing Beijing solely through a security lens undermines Canberra’s capacity to engage pragmatically on shared environmental interests.

Illustration: Craig Stephens
US-China trade war

US Senate, passing Trump bill, bars energy tax credits for China-linked firms

House of Representatives must still approve legislation, which also ends ‘de minimis’ customs protections, before sending it to White House.

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Science

China-led study proposes global green-energy network to solve power crisis

Researchers evaluate global solar-wind potential to develop a phased pathway to a fully coordinated system by the 2050s.

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Climate change

‘Crunch time’ for climate as scientists issue urgent global warning

Scientists warn key climate indicators in uncharted territory, 1.5-degree ‘carbon budget’ nearly exhausted.

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TOPSHOT - This photograph shows the sun setting with an orange haze, at sunset in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, northern France, on June 3, 2025. Large smoke plumes caused by violent and early wildfires in Canada have been hovering over north-western Europe since late May, at very high altitudes without posing health risks, sometimes causing orange sunsets, the European Copernicus observatory stated on June 3, 2025. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
Banking & finance

Opinion | London and Hong Kong can lead way in UK-China finance cooperation

From green finance to fintech, both cities are at the forefront of progress in financial services, and there is much room to grow.

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Conservation

‘Wild West out there’: UN Ocean Conference opens, aims to protect our seas

Two thirds of our oceans are ‘areas beyond national jurisdiction – that’s half our planet’.

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France

Researchers set sail, kicking off the third UN Ocean Conference in France

Delegates including heads of state, scientists, and environmental advocates are expected in Nice this week to confront growing threats to the ocean.

UNOC participants, including France’s President Emmanuel Macron (centre-left) and Prince Albert II of Monaco (centre-right) on stage at the end of the Blue Economy and Finance Forum (BEFF) at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Sunday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Brics

Brics approves climate finance framework, crafting joint stance for first time

The economic bloc forges shared priorities ahead of Cop30, the United Nations summit on climate change set for Brazil in November.

The Brics meeting on climate change and sustainable development in Brasilia. Photo: Handout
Climate change

Opinion | With China’s leadership, green industry growth can smooth trade turmoil

Clean energy and climate investments are not just environmental imperatives but economic opportunities. China is already a world leader in these.

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Climate change

Opinion | China must resist greenwashing its dirty coal habit with green bonds

Can China credibly claim climate leadership while doubling down on its dirtiest fuel?

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Pope Francis

Opinion | The world has lost a pope dedicated to the poor and the planet

From promoting climate justice to supporting migrants, Pope Francis genuinely practised the ‘preferential option for the poor’.

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Pope Francis gestures after speaking to the members of Catholic community at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 4, 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE
Climate change

Opinion | Asia can’t afford to wait for the US to wake up to its climate duty

As the US walks away again, Europe, China and others need to fill the climate reparation funding gap, not out of charity but responsibility.

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Elephants wade through flood waters to help bring relief supplies to villagers in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on October 6, 2024. Photo: AP
Climate change

Opinion | Asia is ground zero for the impact of global glacier loss

Other mountain ranges are losing their glaciers faster but Asia’s critically dependent economy and people put it on the front line.

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Climate change

How rapid climate change in Greenland is transforming lives and livelihoods

Fishermen swap dogsleds for boats and ice melt opens a ‘sweet shop’ of minerals to exploit. Yet storms are bigger and the ground is cracking.

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Americas and the Caribbean

Peruvian farmer’s climate fight reaches German court

A farmer and mountain guide is suing German energy firm RWE, due to the company’s share of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

River waters run through the Nueva Florida neighborhood, which risks flooding because of glacial melt, in Huaraz, Peru, on March 2. Photo: Reuters
Indonesia

Indonesia’s clean energy transition in doubt after US withdrawal from JETP

Despite Jakarta’s ambitious net-zero goals, analysts say the country has limited political will to fulfil its climate commitments on its own.

Science

Why is China quietly helping Africa build a Great Green Wall across the Sahara?

‘This battle can be won’: desert expert reveals how China’s technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental project.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | Why does a Kazakh tycoon want to ride China’s electric vehicle wave?

‘We are a natural partner for China, especially in the growing EV sector,’ says Kenges Rakishev, chairman of the Fincraft Group.

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Kenges Rakishev, chairman of the Fincraft Group. Photo: Handout
Climate change

Opinion | Can China, India step in to fill climate void left by Trump’s America?

The US’ absence from international deliberations on climate change must not be allowed to derail efforts to solve the crisis.

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A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire near a burned structure in Los Angeles, on January 8. Photo: AP
United Nations

Nations agree to hard-fought nature funding plan at UN talks in Rome

More than 140 countries at the Cop16 agree on a financing plan to help reverse dramatic losses in biodiversity.

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US-China relations

Opinion | China must assess risks and rewards as Trump reverses US climate policy

Beijing can no longer expect to use climate cooperation as a bargaining chip with Washington. But a chance arises to seize global climate leadership.

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Pacific nations

China, the Cook Islands – and New Zealand’s struggle for Pacific influence

By signing a deal with Beijing, the Cook Islands is asserting its independence – in a stark challenge to New Zealand’s Pacific strategy.

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The Cook Islands, with its population of around 15,000, is a self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand. Photo: Shutterstock
Climate change

‘Virtually certain’ Earth has already breached 1.5-degree warming threshold

Last year’s record-breaking temperatures could be a sign that the world was entering a new era of global warming.

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The Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is a small-sounding number with big implications for life on Earth. File photo: Nasa via AP
Australia

Australia plans ‘long-term managed retreat’ from Cocos Islands

Many of the islands’ residents are descendants of Malay workers brought there to work in coconut plantations in the 1830s.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Opinion | Why China’s best bet is growing and sharing the green tech pie

Countries don’t want to be relegated to the least profitable roles in the green transition. China must share the pie for long-term stability.

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