Country playing its part for a low-carbon world

Much of China continues to swelter in scorching heat and will continue to do so until the middle of next week, according to the National Meteorological Center.

Elsewhere across the northern hemisphere, prolonged heat waves are already wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale. From Europe to Africa, and from Asia to North America, there have been increasing numbers of extreme droughts and wildfires, as well as rising death tolls from heat-stress.

While some people still dispute the cause of the abnormally hot weather, most point to human induced climate change as the culprit.