Solar power has changed Syrian refugees’ lives in Jordan – and they want more

Special Feature Za’atari is the biggest solar-powered refugee camp in the world, lighting the way for others

Analysis Nine must-read climate change stories of 2021 from around the world

Analysis From how Indonesia treats its Elon Musks to the aftermath of “unimaginable” flooding in Germany, here’s our pick of Climate Home’s best reporting this year

Analysis 2021 in coal: China’s dirty recovery mars international finance crackdown

Analysis Global coal power generation reached an all time high in 2021, just as countries reached an elusive consensus to phase down the fossil fuel

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Analysis Climate Home News quiz of 2021

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News Brussels sets out new green aid rules, with ‘pragmatic exceptions’ for gas

News The new guidelines include a special clause for natural gas, allowing member states with the lowest GDP to transition from coal to gas

UK floats ‘climate compatibility’ test for new oil and gas drilling

News The UK government says new oil and gas licensing can fit with its climate commitments. Campaigners, citing the International Energy Agency, disagree

Drought-hit town hopes Chile’s new leader will take back water from Big Avocado

News Leftist Gabriel Boric won a landslide to become Chile’s president and backs reform to improve water rights and access for communities like Petorca

Net Zero

India strengthens climate targets, aiming for net zero by 2070

Australia is relying on offsets and future technology to meet 2050 net zero target

Saudi Arabia pledges net zero by 2060, but no oil exit plan

UK sets out economy-wide strategy to meet 2050 net zero goal

How the Glasgow Dialogue can deliver finance for victims of the climate crisis

It is important to seize this opportunity to get dedicated support for people on the front lines of climate impacts, urgently and based on need

Finance must be the golden thread for climate diplomacy in 2022

Here’s how G20 host Indonesia and G7 host Germany can make climate finance flow for effective action next year

Why I am calling on EU lawmakers to put climate at the heart of agricultural policy

The proposed reform to the EU’s farming subsidy programme continues a business-as-usual approach to farming that we cannot afford in a climate emergency

After Cop26, countries must turn climate promises into action on global shipping

A meeting of the IMO this week is the first test of translating promises made in Glasgow into bold action. The world must turn its gaze to shipping

The street and the boardroom are closer than they have ever been on climate

Action, action, action is the only antidote to “blah, blah, blah” – and forward-looking business leaders are stepping up right now

Oil and gas avoided censure in Glasgow for the 26th time. Let’s not make it 27

Investor and state-owned oil companies in the G20 find common cause in watering down climate ambition; we need to confront their influence

To keep 1.5C alive, the super rich must change their high carbon lifestyles

The richest 1% are using way more than their fair share of the 1.5C carbon budget. Tackling inequality and emissions must go together

Big business must not be allowed to set the carbon trading agenda at Cop26

Delicate negotiations on carbon market rules in Glasgow could be thrown off course by the big banks’ push to “scale up” voluntary carbon trading

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