On a country by country basis, China is now the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

The Chinese government says much of this is due to the fact that China is the manufacturing capital of the world.

But what about on an individual basis?

With living standards and incomes increasing, sales of cars, air conditioners and other greenhouse gas emitting goods are on the rise.

This increase doesn’t sit well with the government’s new climate change strategy.

So it plans to reduce individual emissions in a number of areas, some of which will have a direct impact on the lives of Chinese residents.

One such area is building energy consumption, as Elise Potaka reports from Beijing.

Climate change might be bad news on many fronts, but in Australia it has revived the flagging fortunes of one former outsider of the energy sector - nuclear.

The uranium industry and its supporters are marketing nuclear energy as the only way to tackle climate change and preserve the economy.

As Erica Vowles reports, concern over how to reduce Australia’s high rate of CO2 emissions have revived an idea that many thought was dead and buried.