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1 week ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | Blair Palese

Editor’s note: Blair is co-founder of Climate & Capital Media and, as the founder of Climate Capital Forum (no association with CCM), is one of Australia’s most influential climate activists. For the past four years, she has reported extensively on Australian politics and climate change for CCM and The Guardian. Her earlier reporting is highlighted in links throughout the story. SYDNEY, Australia — What do Australia, Canada, Germany and Greenland have in common?

2 weeks ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | Moriah Costa

Plotting out long-term goals with policy support has put the country on a steady transition trajectory In the first of a two-part profile of the world’s second-largest economy, the reasons for China’s lead on green finance and regulation come under the microscope. As the US pulls back from its climate policies, China is looking to become a leader in the energy transition and has already taken steps to expand its influence on green finance.

1 month ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | John Howell

It’s planting time in America’s rural heartland, those states in the Midwest, the Great Plains, and the Mid-South Delta regions that make up the nation’s “breadbasket.” But this year the usual spring optimism that fuels farmers is subdued by the increasingly extreme weather, compounded by inflation, uncertainty around federal government farm support policies and most profoundly — by a new world of reciprocal tariffs that threatens billions in US agriculture exports.

1 month ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | Kari Huus

Vietnam EV snubs USA for $2 billion EV plantNasdaq-listed VinFast prepares the startup of a new facility in India in June, and postpones a planned $4 billion investment in the US until 2028. Outlook BusinessInvestors ink E-motorbikes deal in IndonesiaEcoSecurities group will finance the dissemination of several hundred thousand domestically made e-bikes for commercial use across Indonesia.

1 month ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | Peter McKillop

These are dark days for the mainstream climate movement in America. The Trump Administration’s open warfare against clean energy, Texas’s push to ban solar and wind, and the systematic dismantling of four years of Biden-era climate policy have left many American activists and policymakers in a state of shock, fear, and despair. “How unstoppable is the transition, really?” wrote author and columnist David Wallace-Wells in a deeply skeptical column this week in The New York Times.