Hermitage Capital is in talks with wealth funds and investment authorities to set up a Middle East private equity fund, senior executive says.

Japan recorded the highest average temperature for September since records began in 1898. This year is expected to be the hottest in human history as climate change accelerates.

Just transition, or practices for mitigating and adapting to climate change without sacrificing key stakeholders’ interests, is a topic that Hong Kong-listed companies have to confront, expert says.

State Emergency Services Minister announced the start of an official bushfire danger period, with the ‘scorching’ heat lifting the risk for the week ahead, unusual for early October.

Malaysia has blamed worsening pollution on forest fires in Indonesia but Jakarta claims there is “no transboundary haze”.

England has enacted the ban and curbs on the supply of single-use plastics in a move to curb “harmful” plastic waste.

Governor Kathy Hochul warned of a ‘dangerous, life-threatening storm’, and local transit authorities urged residents to stay home if they could.

Readers discuss the impact of the multilateral lender’s projects on women, the role food companies can play in the fight against climate change, and key opinion leaders’ getting embroiled in scams

Due to a lack of salmon from a rise in ocean temperatures, there are concerns that brown bears in Japan will soon start to venture into urban areas in search of sustenance.

The announcement for new production of gas and oil in the North Sea comes one week after PM Rishi Sunak softened policies aimed at the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

COP28 president designate praises bank’s new climate action plan; new report questions AIIB accountability process.

Fukushima city is starting to resist mega-solar energy projects as concerns grow about their impact on residents and the environment.

Climate change is driving extreme weather events that make air pollution worse, according to a major report. More people – young and old – with lung problems will die as a result, says an author of the report.

Chinese ICT giants Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, Tencent and Xiaomi could eliminate 2.5 times Hong Kong’s annual emissions if they achieve net zero emissions, think tank China Water Risk says.

Eight children were among 13 people still missing after a sewage-polluted river swollen by heavy rains swept away homes in the Guatemalan capital. In Mexico, at least 7 people died and 9 were missing.

‘It’s not out of the realm of possibility’ that the US could achieve Joe Biden’s ‘decadal vision of commercial fusion,’ US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Monday.

The White House is hosting Pacific island leaders on Monday as Biden promises to take US engagement in region to ‘next level’ but there are notable absences from the meeting.

Technology and ecological protection are central themes of extravaganza at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, watched by President Xi Jinping and visiting counterparts.

At the Bund Summit in Shanghai on Saturday, HKEX chairwoman Laura Cha said the Hong Kong bourse will ensure that its climate-related disclosure rules are in line with the highest international standards.

‘Political leadership must think of feeding humans first, automobiles can wait … alliance would be nothing short of a historical blunder’.