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World Bank plans to take lead in climate challenge
Jim Yong Kim calls for end to extreme poverty by 2030 and promises organisation will boost efforts to address climate change
UK lawyers launch climate diplomacy bootcamp
Lawyers train negotiators from least developed countries in an effort to level the playing field at the UN climate talks
NASA’s chief climate scientist retires to hit campaign trail
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
How sustainable is your Easter egg?
New campaign rates top UK chocolate brands on their use of unsustainable palm oil
Why the EU’s 2030 climate targets matter beyond Brussels
Despite an ailing carbon market and shrinking economy, the importance of Europe’s climate and energy policies reaches far and wide
China and Russia lead work to establish World Bank rival
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
Summer melt increasing on the Antarctic Peninsula
Region warming faster than the rest of the continent as meltwater speeds glacier advance and encourage iceberg break up
UK climate panel shreds Mail on Sunday ‘great green con’ story
Committee on Climate Change’s Professor Sir Brian Hoskins says journalist who claimed global warming has ended is “incorrect” and “misunderstood” data
EU proposes 40% emissions cut for 2030
Plans enter consultation process as Commissioners stress “economic necessity” of new climate and energy goals
EU set to announce 2030 emissions reduction target
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
Coffee powered cars promise clean energy high
Planes powered on waste, cars running on coffee and a helicopter using only people power – is there any limit to human ingenuity?
WWF: UK government stuck on a ‘brown economy’
Treasury must play ‘catch up’ with big business and or risk damaging the British economy, says WWF-UK’s head of business
Green Climate Fund faces more delays after inconclusive meeting
Latest talks leave questions over civil society participation, role of private sector, a timeline for donations and how best to get the money from pledge to project
China to start work on national carbon market in 2015
Officials say local pilot schemes will be the focus of all efforts until 2015 and only then will work on a nation-wide programme begin in earnest
UK Budget: shale gas industry says it doesn’t need subsidies
Gas lobbyist tells RTCC industry does not want subsidies – just permission to drill
Kerry ramps up US climate diplomacy efforts
US Secretary of State John Kerry continues efforts to develop climate consensus after China, Australia & EU meetings
Report: Dash for gas with caution or risk UK climate goals
RTCC’s morning round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
Plankton twice as carbon hungry as thought
Climate models of the world’s oceans could need to be revised after it was discovered that plankton are far richer than previously thought
Obama to establish $2bn clean energy fund
Revenue from oil and gas licences to be diverted to research on more efficient vehicles and fuels as Obama takes first solid steps on climate change since election
UNCCD: Vulnerable nations must defend against drought
As climate change exacerbates the problem, there is a danger that drought could sneak up on unprepared governments, warns UNCCD Exec-Secretary Luc Gnacadja