China and the US expanded their bi-lateral climate agreement, with China launching the world’s biggest carbon market in 2017 and pledged US$3.1 billion in climate finance to help poorer nations transition away from fossil fuels.

A looming US federal budget confrontation and hostility to UN climate talks from conservative US politicians threaten a US down payment into a key climate-aid fund, money considered vital to a climate deal in Paris this December.

With renewable energies booming globally, and the fossil fuel industry in terminal decline, the movement to shift investments out of dirty energy towards clean renewables has exploded, topping $2.6 trillion dollars.

Both the private and public sectors are bringing a low carbon society closer this week, as they make historic commitments to cut emissions and boost renewable energy. Major businesses are going carbon neutral, while sub-national governments announced major emissions reduction plans.

Typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Tuesday - calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fueling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations.

Police nabbed seven corporate executives in connection with illegal forest fires across Sumatra and Kalimantan, as part of a wide-ranging effort to arrest the haze crisis that's left a choking haze over much of the country and some of its Southeast Asian neighbors.

100 per cent renewable energy for all is achievable by 2050, creating jobs and cutting fuel costs, according to Greenpeace’s latest Energy [R]evolution report.

Green funds are outperforming ‘black’ funds that invest in fossil fuels by more than 14%, according to new research, which will silence some of the criticism of the socially-responsible investment market.

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, who took over this month, said he’s aiming to eliminate Africa’s energy deficit by 2025 by mobilizing $55 billion of investment.

The number of carbon pricing schemes worldwide has almost doubled since 2012 - covering about 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions - but most taxes or markets have prices too low to prevent damaging global warming, the World Bank said on Sunday.