Environment

A new report stresses the sector must significantly step up climate ambition to match global climate obligations once they are ratcheted up at COP25 in 2020.

It is the first year CO2 emissions have risen since 2014. according to the Energy Information Administration.

It will be powered by renewable energy. in addition to using smart grid as well as blockchain technologies.

The World Meteorological Organization warns this means future generations will have to deal with increasingly severe impacts of climate change.

From 2006 to 2015. Beijing operated on a ".one coal plant a week". building programme.

Coal is responsible for 30 per cent of all energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.

Future financing will aim to accelerate clean energy innovation. energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.

The target. however. does not include indirect emissions from the energy sold to consumers but National Grid said it is supporting that through various initiatives.

China lowered the share of coal in its energy mix to 59% last year.