Climate politics
Sri Lanka makes compensation plea in UN climate pledge
NEWS: Island off tip of southern India wants reimbursing for the $420m it plans to spend by 2025 on warding off extreme weather
Weekly wrap: G77 gets its mojo back in Bonn
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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
United Arab Emirates submits renewables goal to UN
NEWS: Middle Eastern petropower aims for 24% clean energy by 2021, but sets no emissions target in climate pledge
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
Apples, apartheid and surgery: The pick of climate analogies
BLOG: Several new phrases made it into the UN vernacular this week as countries clashed at UN climate talks in Bonn
Turkey coal push wrecks ‘inadequate’ climate pledge – analysts
NEWS: Planned dirty power plants will wipe out clean energy gains, says Climate Action Tracker, jeopardising an already weak emissions target
What game theorists predict for a Paris climate deal
NEWS: Academics expect weak language on compensating victims of global warming, but agreement on a long-term global emissions target
7 climate change data tools and what they tell you
BLOG: Interactives from the likes of NASA, WRI and the Financial Times open up hours of fun for the global warming watcher
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
Indonesia climate pledge hazy on deforestation – analysts
NEWS: Jakarta is fudging future emissions from tree-cutting and stripped peatland amid a coal spree, says Climate Action Tracker
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?
Loans or grants for climate finance?
COMMENT: Confusion reigns over the right format for cash to tackle climate impacts. Resolve this quickly, or the UN-backed Green Climate Fund will falter
Small islands urge progress in Bonn, cite Philippines Typhoon Koppu
NEWS: Alliance of vulnerable states remind weak UN climate deal might be “worse than no deal at all” as session gets off to rocky start
Developing countries demand additions to slimmed-down climate text
NEWS: In a heated start to talks in Bonn, G77 + China group accuses co-chairs of producing an unbalanced working document