ANALYSIS: Snap election offers unique opportunity to halt developments that menace the Great Barrier Reef and the climate
BLOG: Key dates for your diary in 2015, a year when the countries will come together and agree how to address climate change
ANALYSIS: Firefighters and regional politicians are calling on the prime minister to tackle climate change after a year of heatwaves
BLOG: Japan Meteorological Agency says last year was +0.27°C above the 1981-2010 average and warmest since 1891
BLOG: NASA gallery reveals how global warming is taking its toll on the planet’s glaciers, lakes and forests
ANALYSIS: Emissions from planes are a major clause of climate change, yet they remain unregulated. What can be done?
COMMENT: A global climate deal must be grounded in sound moral principles if it is to protect the most vulnerable
ANALYSIS: There are three big UN deals due in 2015, on disasters, development and climate; what happens in the markets and on the streets will be critical
ANALYSIS: US and China made friends, Russia and Ukraine split up, while scientists warned of catastrophe
ANALYSIS: International aviation and shipping are not mentioned in the Lima call for climate action, despite growing emissions
ANALYSIS: As the world’s second biggest exporter of emissions, Russia should lobby for consumers to take responsibility, say economists
BLOG: Springtime burning of savannah and forest in the southern hemisphere shows up in latest satellite images
COMMENT: Climate negotiations must take increased human mobility into account, argues the head of the International Organization for Migration
COMMENT: It’s time for global climate negotiations to deliver results, argues Saleemul Huq, reflecting on the recent Lima set of talks
ANALYSIS: Female representation in UN climate talks is increasing; on the ground, women are still marginalised
COMMENT: Citizen-led initiatives in the developing world have the potential to transform cities for the good
ANALYSIS: No one country can leave Peru saying it got everything it wanted, but the building blocks of a global deal remain in place
COMMENT: Money on its own is not enough – countries need to learn how to use finance more efficiently and transparently
BLOG: Latin American cities are choking to death, that US-China emissions pact didn’t solve everything and other nuggets from COP20
Rolling commentary, news, analysis and video from the 20th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention in Lima, Peru