Beijing: In Australia, politicians continue to debate the existence of climate change. Donald Trump's Environment Protection Agency declared this week that the "war on coal is over”.
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| A woman wears a mask as she walks on a street in Beijing. |
In China, the outlook could not be more different.
The war on coal reached fever pitch here this month. As a deadline looms to achieve clean air targets by the end of 2017, October has seen unprecedented measures come into force to curb air pollution and reduce emissions.
Steel production has been halved in major steel cities, coal banned in China's coal capital, factories closed down for failing pollution inspections, and hundreds of officials sacked for failing to meet environmental targets.
Read Kirsty Needham’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “In China, the war on coal just got serious.”
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