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8 ways to cut the carbon footprint of your dinner

BLOG: From farm to plate, food accounts for up to a third of global emissions – so how can you limit the impact?

COMMENT: Rising consumption of meat and dairy has a huge impact on global warming – yet the desire to address this is lamentable

PODCAST: This week Ed King is joined by Richard Black, Farhana Yamin and Lisa Friedman – plus an interview with Connie Hedegaard

INTERVIEW: If conflict-riven state can forge a carbon-cutting strategy then so can others says Kinshasa’s lead climate diplomat

NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home

ANALYSIS: Australia’s dash for coal threatens existing miners as well as the climate, argues The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss

ANALYSIS: For decades fossil fuels were seen as a safe bet – until one simple study by a team of fund managers in 2011

ANALYSIS: Who will take the most prestigious climate science job in the world? RTCC investigates

BLOG: Young people and future generations will be hit hardest by climate change, so what do they need out of a UN pact?

ANALYSIS: Former Australian climate diplomat Jane Wilkinson offers a closer analysis of its INDC, and suggests despite criticism, all is not lost

ANALYSIS: Shell and BG are leading calls for an ambitious global pact in Paris, but it’s still unclear how they will help lubricate talks

COMMENT: CO2 cuts for a 2015 UN climate deal will fall well short of required levels, placing pressure on bottom up initiatives

COMMENT: Adani and GVK’s controversial mines in the Galilee Basin are not the cure to energy poverty, says retired top Indian official

COMMENT: If the aviation sector can fly Paris to Tokyo in three hours, it can – and must – go green, says Transport & Environment

ANALYSIS: As low oil prices fail to bankrupt US oil, could climate action help Middle Eastern petropower rebalance its economy?

COMMENT: Climate Change Commission member says govt appears insincere over meeting post 2020 carbon cutting goals

ANALYSIS: Targets set by the US for cutting carbon emissions send a clear signal to the rest of the world and raise hopes for Paris accord

QUIZ: Which country has the biggest wind farm, the most dramatic climate negotiator or the world record for tree-planting?

BLOG: Science drenched with a water pistol as sceptical MPs and weathermen line up to bash Met Office

ANALYSIS: It won’t speed up the US coal phase-out, but the flagship climate policy does kick an ailing sector, with global lessons