South Korea

Newly-elected president reportedly looking at scrapping country's focus on fossil fuels and nuclear in favour of investing in clean energy and natural gas

President Moon Jae-in moves swiftly to order temporary shutdown of some of the country's oldest coal power plants in bid to tackle smog crisis

Some 97 countries, representing almost 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have now ratified

Country's largest utility aims to install 500MW of energy storage capacity to help balance supply and demand by the end of 2017

New 24MW storage system is the world's largest lithium ion installation for matching supply and demand

Report offers a range of best practice initiatives to help policy makers make an immediate push to cut emissions

Carbon pricing is set to raise $22bn this year, as Vietnam adopts its own carbon market and China tightens cap-and-trade regulations

Jonathan Grant and Rob Milnes warn countries like South Korea are setting their own baselines to make their climate change pledges look better than they really are

Asian powerhouse to submit higher reductions than expected today as contribution to global emissions reduction deal

Emissions trading scheme officially comes online this week, promising a further boost to global carbon market