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India accuses EU of hindering global aviation deal
Morning summary: India says EU ETS is obstacle to aviation deal; APEC agree renewable energy programme; and UK anti-fracking protesters vacate Balcombe site
UN carbon budget talks are ‘urgent’, warns Lord Stern
Morning summary: Leading economist pushes for carbon budget; IPCC is launched in Stockholm; and IKEA to start selling solar panels
Clean energy investments under attack from Australian government
Morning summary: Abbott to stop Clean Energy Finance Corporation; women leaders tells Obama to scrap Keystone; and animals need to be genetically modified
Labour leader Ed Miliband promises UK 2030 decarbonisation target
Morning summary: UK leader of the opposition promises green jobs; Global Challenges Day to hold governments to account; EU ETS to be challenged by business lobby group
Australia resurrects axed Climate Commission as independent body
Morning summary: Private investors create Climate Council in Australia; governments meet to finalise IPCC; and efforts get underway to curb aviation emissions
World is heading for ‘heart attack’, says UN official
Morning summary: Halldor Thorgeirsson criticises governments for inaction; California governor signs anti-fracking bill; soaring food prices to hit children hardest
US to curb emissions from new power plants
Morning summary: EPA takes climate action plan forward; IPCC chairman dismisses IPCC spoilers; and Russia encourages planet hacking
Obama officials face Congress climate change grilling
Morning summary: In the first airing of Obama’s climate action plan, the Environmental Protection Agency asserted its right to pass laws without Congress
Anger at Australia decision to dump climate change minister
Morning summary: Tony Abbott’s move to ditch the climate change and science ministries has met with heavy criticism down under
Vivienne Westwood opens fashion show with ‘climate change dance’
Morning summary: controversial fashion icon opens her show at the London Fashion Week with request that audience write to UN
UK set to relaunch flagship energy efficiency scheme
Morning summary: Ed Davey, Secretary of State for the Environment, announced his intention at Liberal Democrat party conference to relaunch the Green Deal
UK conservatives launch ‘climate sceptic’ fightback
Morning summary: Climate change minister Greg Barker calls for ‘new generation of energy entrepreneurs’ to help cut bills and make sector greener
California passes tough new fracking laws
Morning summary: controversial bill would give California the nation’s toughest regulation on shale gas exploration
Obama unlikely to make Keystone decision until 2014
Morning summary: Experts say that the State Department is likely to delay on a Keystone XL Pipeline decision until next year
UN climate envoys start ‘informal’ Auckland meeting
Morning summary: International climate negotiators met in New Zealand today to discuss how to inject “fresh thinking” into approaching UN agreement
US offers $24 million to climate vulnerable Pacific Islands
Morning summary: US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announces new climate change fund for nations at risk from sea level rise
Obama and Nordic leaders agree to climate cooperation at G20
Morning summary: Obama met the Nordic leaders, who together agreed to cooperate on clean energy issues ahead of G20 Summit
UN talks fail to establish aviation emissions trading scheme
Morning summary: WWF says ICAO has made virtually no progress over the last 16 years to agree a global deal for aviation emissions
Lord Stern: Cameron’s claims of UK fracking boom ‘baseless’
Morning summary: leading climate economist says Prime Minister’s assurances shale exploration can bring down the price of gas are way off mark
Kevin Rudd: Australia opposition “walking away” from climate change
Morning summary: opposition leader Tony Abbott says he will not increase funding to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions