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‘We haven’t known a world without climate change’: school strikers demand safe future

News: In more than 100 countries, young people took to the streets in a challenge to their parents and politicians

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News: Germany ready to join global coal phase-out alliance: environment minister

News: Now its coal commission has recommended a 2038 exit date, Germany can join a global alliance to end coal burning, Svenja Schulze tells Taz newspaper

News: Chile warns of 3-hour commutes, split venue at December climate talks

News: This year’s UN summit comes at a “highly congested” period in Santiago, the hosts say, but a plea to move it to January was overruled

News: UK Conservative politicians back ‘inspirational’ school climate strikers

News: Public opinion and government ministers back young people skipping school to protest climate inaction, in contrast to the prime minister’s early scepticism

News: US and Saudi Arabia block geoengineering governance push

News: Countries failed to agree on a Swiss resolution to consider regulating technologies that aim to cool the planet, at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi

Energy and oil majors turn to rural Africa in grab for world’s next billion customers

News: Once basic energy is established in disconnected regions, the companies that supply it hope to cash in on demand for a slew of new products and services

School climate strikes go global, with actions planned in 92 countries

News: Young people are preparing for a mass walkout of classes on Friday, to demand swift action from governments to safeguard their futures

Capitalism can deliver the transformation the climate school strike demands

Comment: A letter to 16-year-old Greta Thunberg: ‘I’m a good-old institutionalised man… my generation can’t speak to power the way yours can’

Environment community mourns victims of Ethiopian Airlines crash

News: UN staff and delegates to the UN Environment Assembly, which opened in Nairobi on Monday, were among 157 to die on the way from Addis Ababa

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Germany ready to join global coal phase-out alliance: environment minister

Now its coal commission has recommended a 2038 exit date, Germany can join a global alliance to end coal burning, Svenja Schulze tells Taz newspaper

Chile warns of 3-hour commutes, split venue at December climate talks

This year’s UN summit comes at a “highly congested” period in Santiago, the hosts say, but a plea to move it to January was overruled

UK Conservative politicians back ‘inspirational’ school climate strikers

Public opinion and government ministers back young people skipping school to protest climate inaction, in contrast to the prime minister’s early scepticism

US and Saudi Arabia block geoengineering governance push

Countries failed to agree on a Swiss resolution to consider regulating technologies that aim to cool the planet, at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi

School climate strikes go global, with actions planned in 92 countries

Young people are preparing for a mass walkout of classes on Friday, to demand swift action from governments to safeguard their futures

Climate Weekly: Norway divests (a bit)

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Brexit

Belfast’s bid to join UK environment law raises post-Brexit border issues

Adding Northern Ireland to the environment law adds pressure on London to keep its regulations in step with the EU’s

New UK green watchdog to be based on EU system, says Gove

‘Whatever else are the defects of the EU – that is a good working model,’ the environment secretary told MPs

UK bill would weaken environmental law after Brexit, legal experts tell MPs

The bill creates ‘get-out-of-jail-free cards’ for ministers and exposes the environment watchdog to government influence, they said

Ireland needs new oil and gas fields to ease reliance on Brexit UK, say drillers

Oil and gas explorers are gearing up to drill offshore Ireland in a bid to boost its energy independence from Britain

Irish energy industry calls for new links to Europe amid Brexit fears

Grid operator boss calls on Brussels to approve funding for a new electricity connection to France to avoid isolation from continent

In Ireland, Brexit proofing must mean climate proofing

Brexit has led to delays in climate action just at the moment when bold plans could soften the impact of the UK divorce, writes MEP Lynn Boylan

No deal Brexit to leave UK without green watchdog for two years – report

Changes to UK environment oversight and the Irish power market will not be set by 29 March, the Institute for Government said, and a crash out will leave no time to do so

MPs call to expand post-Brexit green programme across whole government

Indications that Britain’s new environmental watchdog will be government-funded raise questions about its independence, the National Audit Office said