China has made global headlines in recent months for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, while state media ran almost daily stories of chemical water pollution and contaminated food, writes the Mail and Guardian.

• November 30, 2010

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov inaugurated on Sunday the last section of a pipeline to export Turkmen gas to northeast Iran, media reported.

• November 29, 2010

Lithuania "has questions" about the report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the future nuclear power plants in Belarus

• November 29, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday lashed out at European Union laws aimed at liberalising the continent's energy market, saying they hinder investment and amount to uncivilised 'robbery'.

• November 27, 2010

SOCAR has announced the discovery of a huge gas field Umid in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev said.

• November 26, 2010

Kyiv-based Power-Trade Ltd., part of the largest Ukrainian private energy company DTEK, expects to start commercial supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Moldova from the second quarter of 2011, Power-Trade director Andriy Favorov has said.

• November 24, 2010

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin on Monday, exchanging views on Sino-Russian bilateral energy cooperation and reaching consensus on further development.

• November 23, 2010

The Georgian government has said it does not plan to sell a strategic pipeline that brings Russian natural gas to Armenia through its territory

• November 22, 2010