Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

At the Harvard College China Forum, participants said existential threats such as global warming cannot be solved unless the two countries move beyond their mutual distrust.

Europe’s top rights court on Tuesday ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, in its first such ruling against a state on the issue.

Brazil will host the COP30 United Nations climate talks in Belem in the Amazon rainforest in 2025, and hopes the summit will boost its eco-tourism credentials and show it has more than beaches to offer.

Two leaders described as holding ‘a candid and in-depth exchange of views’, although Xi slammed Biden’s ‘endless stream of measures to suppress’ advanced technology transfer.

The world is just beginning to see the worst impacts of climate change, and world leaders must put aside their distrust and geopolitical tensions to deliver on their decarbonisation commitments, one of the world’s top climate scientists has said.

‘Excess capacity poses risks not only to American workers and firms and to the global economy, but also to productivity and growth in the Chinese economy,’ Yellen says.

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization’s report confirmed preliminary data indicating that last year was by far the hottest year ever recorded/

John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua reached a bilateral agreement in November that helped catalyse the “Dubai consensus” between nearly 200 countries to transition away from fossil fuels.

The issue of diplomatic recognition is up for debate in the island nation, one of only three remaining Pacific allies of Taiwan. The new prime minister’s position on the subject has not been made public.

Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says.

Following efforts to build infrastructure in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia that ended in disappointment, China’s fortunes seem to have changed thanks to popular – and expensive – clean energy projects.

World just had hottest January on record as human-caused climate change and El Nino weather pattern push up temperatures.

Readers discuss the need to involve grass-roots communities in the crafting of climate solutions, the recent scandal engulfing a Hong Kong charity, and how to preserve the mental health of the city’s children

John Kerry, a former senator and US secretary of state, is stepping down to work on Biden’s re-election campaign.

Li Qiang, in discussions with Michael Higgins as well as with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, is the first member of Chinese leadership to visit Ireland since 2015.

Beijing and Tokyo foreign affairs officials meet as relations strained by differences on Taiwan and Japan’s decision to release Fukushima water.

The former senator and secretary of state will depart later this winter and plans to help the US president’s election campaign.

Beijing confirms 74-year-old Xie Zhenhua has stepped down for health reasons.

Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin, as climate change, and El Nino fuelled record temperatures, exacerbating heatwaves, floods, and wildfires.