COP21
Walking tall: Expect tears as UN climate chief eyes Paris prize
PROFILE: Christiana Figueres has led the UN’s climate body for five turbulent years – and finally the diminutive Costa Rican has a global deal in her sights
Decarbonisation risks sidetracking Paris pact, says ex-UN climate chief
NEWS: Fossil fuel phase-out this century is an ‘impressive sound bite’ but could harm chances of an agreement at COP21, says Yvo de Boer
Ministers to discuss ‘landing zones’ ahead of Paris climate summit
NEWS: France asks governments to deliver ‘proposals for common ground on key political issues’ as clock ticks down to start of negotiations
CEOs to the rescue: Can business save the world from climate change?
NEWS: PwC says private and public sector has tools to limit warming to below 2C danger zone, if COP21 in Paris delivers green investment framework
UN: Paris climate plans slow emissions growth to 2030
NEWS: Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to carbon cuts, admits a global deal needs to ensure these are deeper and faster
Segolene Royal, Prince Charles target Paris deforestation goal
NEWS: French environment chief and Crown Prince urge governments to take tough line on destruction of world’s forests ahead of COP21 summit
Carbon c-Reddit: UN climate chief takes on internet
BLOG: Christiana Figueres participates in Ask Me Anything on online forum as focus on Paris summit builds
National climate plans could face 2018 review under UN deal
NEWS: Fears that emission reductions could drop off the agenda post Paris are driving support behind an early assessment of global carbon cuts
No secret Paris climate deal in making, stresses Tubiana
NEWS: Plan B does not exist says France’s top climate diplomat, urging envoys to accelerate work on new text for global pact
Don’t bet on a Polish EU climate policy revolt – analysts
ANALYSIS: Opposition bid to renegotiate bloc’s 2030 package dismissed as ‘posturing’ as voters set to dump government, analysts say
UN calls for ministers as climate talks head for Paris
NEWS: As fraught final round of interim talks ends, diplomats turn to their political masters to land an elusive global deal
Vulnerable countries warned: Protect your legal rights in a Paris accord
COMMENT: Countries may be waiving claims to future climate compensation in a new deal. Know what you’re signing away, writes barrister Tim Crosland
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: It’s (not) all these negotiators are asking
SKETCH: Venezuela’s Claudia Salerno drops the C-bomb (no, the other one) after climate talks session starts without her in Bonn
Life or death: G77 demands climate finance guarantee
NEWS: Developing countries are pulling together at interim climate talks in a last push before December’s Paris summit
NGOs criticise closed-door UN climate negotiating sessions
NEWS: Shut out to allow climate diplomats to work on text in private, civil society groups warn secrecy bodes ill for Paris summit
Paris climate deal unlikely to need Senate approval, says US envoy
NEWS: Todd Stern tells Capitol Hill committee new UN climate deal will be crafted under existing treaties, bypassing requirements for lawmaker approval
Pathway to $100bn emerging ahead of Paris climate summit
ANALYSIS: Cash demands from developing countries reinserted into text during UN talks in Bonn, as World Bank official hails progress
UN climate text swells as G77 flexes muscles in Bonn
ANALYSIS: Developing countries add more than 50 elements to UN’s draft Paris deal, complaining of bias towards richer nations
US, EU ‘avoiding fair share’ of climate effort
NEWS: Developed world should deepen emissions cuts five times or more by 2030, say civil society groups, plus support poor countries
Cutting through the legal fog of a UN climate pact
COMMENT: A Paris summit is set to produce a treaty that will need ratification. How can it be best framed to get reluctant countries on board?