Insights

The joint US-China announcement on tackling climate change might represent a future that pairs economic growth with environmental concerns.

Protectionism around the globe has increased considerably in recent years, as countries resort to sneakier methods to support exports and their domestic economies. But it's not a recipe for growth.

The coal industry is getting really desperate in its response to the China-US climate deal - it's talking up clean coal. Meanwhile, it belittles solar - yet just two weeks of 2014 solar production will avoid more CO2 than all clean coal projects ever built.

The US-China pact on climate change puts pressure on the Australian government and resources companies to rethink relations with China.

Glencore's decision to temporarily shut down its Australian coal production highlights the severe stress experienced by the thermal coal sector, and it could be years before the outlook improves.

While China is engaged in a determined push to root out corruption at home, it has wavered on addressing the issue at the G20.

Public interest in climate change will be hard to avoid this weekend as Queensland prepares for 'severe' fire risk and Brisbane its warmest November day since John Gorton was in power.

The explosion in Samsung's R&D budget over the past decade has impacted its innovative edge, albeit at an extreme cost.

Shenzhen's 15 million people will take part in China's first major step towards shifting the utility business model towards supporting end-use energy efficiency and distributed renewables.

In the next decade the NBN will become the dominant medium for content distribution and without net neutrality laws the larger service providers will make merry and further entrench their dominance.

In stark contrast to the views of the global coal industry, centralised coal-fired electricity generation is not the best option for those rural communities in India and Africa suffering most from a lack of modern energy.

Telstra's move to introduce real-time alerts for excess data usage is just the latest symptom of how Australian businesses across the board are navigating the age of the customer.

There has been a lot of hype in the media about how wearable tech will help you to live longer but its unclear why those who are not physically active will buy a device let alone wear it.

Backing themselves: The ASX executives with the largest holdings in their own company's stock; four graphs on how Australia is tracking in CEO gender equality and three tips for investing in emerging tech start-ups.

Some people think the $5 billion Tesla gigafactory is big. But we spend $1.5 trillion every year on cars and $3 trillion on oil. That money will allow us to transform production of batteries just like is happening in solar.

China and the US are miles ahead of us on carbon reduction strategies. We need to pick up our game using the available technologies or risk falling further behind.