The White House on Thursday unveiled the outlines of a $1.75 trillion spending package that it hopes will pass Congress, and it includes around $555 billion for climate change.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to do more to reduce his country's reliance on coal and to bring forward its target date for peak CO2 emissions to try to better tackle climate change.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , said on Thursday it had started commercial operations of a 500-megawatt natural gas turbine in Indonesia's Muara Karang Power Plant.
Establishing a fund to help poor countries tackle climate change will be "the biggest obstacle" during U.N. talks to try to curb global warming that begin in Glasgow on Oct. 31, a Chinese environmental official said on Wednesday.
Climate change activists blockaded two busy routes into London, causing rush-hour chaos for motorists on Wednesday, as they defied a national injunction by continuing to protest in the run-up to the COP26 summit next week.