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Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after COP30
16 Dec 2025 06:57 GMT
China’s traditional markets, Europe and the US have recently added trade barriers, including tariffs on Chinese EVs and solar panels. At COP30, China used global climate negotiations to set out its opposition to these barriers, positioning free trade in …
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Japan lost its climate leadership – and now Australia can help
03 Dec 2025 02:04 GMT
One of the major developments at COP30 in Brazil was Australia signing the “Belém Declaration to Transition from Fossil Fuels”.
What does this mean for relations with Japan, Australia’s largest energy export market?
Japan has played a pivotal role in the …
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3 Reasons China Wants Green Leadership And 2 Reasons It Doesn't
29 Nov 2025 07:42 GMT
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Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after Cop30 – and two reasons it doesn’t
28 Nov 2025 10:25 GMT
Ahead of the UN’s Cop30 summit, China appeared keen to take on the mantle of new global leader on climate change, stepping into the gap left by the US’s withdrawal from the top spot under Donald Trump.
In trying to understand what China wants from this …
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The green fault line: The Global North, China, and the politics of climate finance in South Asia
26 Nov 2025 23:25 GMT
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here.
Across South …
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A Canada-Japan-Korea Trilateral Framework for Arctic Defence and Critical Minerals
22 Aug 2025 05:04 GMT
With geopolitical tensions and friction with the United States rising under the Trump 2.0 administration, Canada is recognizing the need for greater self-reliance in producing military equipment and seeking to diversify its defence partnerships. A key …
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‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
09 Jan 2026 06:07 GMT
Donald Trump’s latest attack on climate action takes place amid rapidly rising temperatures, rising sea levels, still-rising greenhouse gas emissions, burgeoning costs from extreme weather and the imminent danger that the world will trigger “tipping points …
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ESG and Sustainability Insights: 10 Things That Should Be Top of Mind in 2026
08 Jan 2026 22:15 GMT
… several jurisdictions, including Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, … jurisdictions. Separately, South Korea is proposing an ambitious … goods from Xinjiang, China — or certain designated … Mechanism (CDM) (the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon crediting system, …
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From Kyoto to Today: China’s Changing Place in the Green Transition
26 Sep 2025 10:28 GMT
… was related to the Kyoto Protocol, as China, being classified as a … rising global emissions.
China and the Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on … to 7 per cent, and Japan to 6 per cent. … hinges considerably on the Asian giant’s strategic choices …
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As governments bet on carbon trading, Japan’s early scheme spotlights pitfalls
19 Sep 2025 01:52 GMT
… influence out of the talks
China, India and Saudi Arabia … its support for the Kyoto Protocol amid growing frustration with … vice president and chief Asia-Pacific field officer at … up of representatives from the Japanese and Cambodian governments, approved …