Emissions

Chair of Committee on Climate Change advises government to ignore emission cuts related to recession and aim to beat short-term carbon targets

Chinese city claims 2.8MW solar rooftop array is the nation's largest

Japanese firm's solar cells to power up cabin's air con systems

Wing attachments to save airline 7m litres of fuel annually, 19 per cent more than expected

iPhones and other mobile devices used to save energy by remotely controlling air conditioning and heaters

Scheme envisages car batteries being reused as power storage devices

Proposed levies could generate $12.4bn in annual tax revenues

Experts predict that rapidly expanding cities mean CO2 emissions will peak no sooner than 2035

But new opposition party data suggests more modest carbon targets would lead to fractionally higher increases in income

Popular subsidy abruptly halted after nearly 2,000 schools exhaust funding