Climate finance
Cash begins trickling out of Green Climate Fund
After a barrage of criticism, the UN’s primary climate fund has released $5.2m to a handful of projects
Green Climate Fund urged to embrace development links
Adapting to the impacts of climate change goes hand-in-hand with wider development objectives for poor countries, NGOs tell UN flagship climate finance scheme
Calling China’s carbon market ‘ambitious’ shows how low the bar has fallen
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
Planned gas investments will blow 1.5C climate target, say analysts
Report by Climate Action Tracker warns that overly bullish gas demand forecasts will lead to stranded assets or an unsafe future climate
US cities and states back Paris deal but ignore climate finance
Several US states and cities have committed to cut emissions despite president Trump, but only Seattle remembered cash commitments to the developing world
Seattle pledges support for climate fund barred by Trump
Council resolution goes beyond backing emissions reductions, stepping up to honour the financial commitments made by the US
Poor world calls for climate finance to fill Trump void
US climate finance axe exposes poor communities worldwide, say negotiators and aid experts, putting pressure on other countries to step up
Coal industry begs Congress to save carbon capture from Trump
Future of US carbon capture and storage looks shaky after Trump tried to cut domestic research then choked off access to international collaboration
Bangladesh backtracks on carbon tax proposal ahead of election year
Mooted climate policy was dropped from the budget announced on Thursday, as energy and transport lobbies complained it would raise living costs
Exxon shareholders win ‘historic’ climate vote against board’s advice
Shareholders in world’s largest private oil company won a victory that signals deep unease about climate change amongst major investors
Exxon shareholder rebellion gains momentum ahead of climate vote
Major investors BlackRock and Vanguard could tip the balance and force oil firm to publicly divulge risk clean technology and regulations pose to its business
G7-backed insurance ‘too little, too late’ for Malawi drought, report finds
Insurance scheme that took nine months to pay out after a state of emergency was declared contains major flaws, according to Action Aid report
How Fiji can bring climate damages home
With a Pacific island presiding over climate talks, this could be the year to levy funds for global warming’s biggest victims, writes Julie-Anne Richards
Ségolène Royal reveals new head for ‘Africa-led’ renewables scheme
Denying allegations of meddling in African clean energy initiative, French environment minister pre-empts board decision on next top official
Africa clean energy row continues in Bonn
African leaders are no-one’s “puppet”, says head of the African group of climate negotiators, after $10bn scheme was said to have been hijacked by the EU
Trump complains US share of climate finance is unfair
Donald Trump suggests China, India, Russia should pay more into the UN-backed Green Climate Fund
EU must stop trying to dictate Africa’s clean energy future
Strong-arm tactics by the European Commission and France to bypass African leadership are unacceptable, writes Mohamed Adow
EU, France accused of hijacking ‘Africa-led’ clean energy scheme
African head of $10bn programme quits, saying French environment minister Ségolène Royal intervened to impose EU-preferred projects
Insurers urged to stop underwriting coal projects, following Axa move
#UnfriendCoal campaign targets the insurance sector to end support for climate-polluting fossil fuels
Groundwater recharge offers hope to drought-hit Indian farmers
In Odisha, where late monsoons mean crop failures, poverty and even suicide, a novel scheme aims to boost water access