Climate politics
Leading climate lawyer speaks out over sexual harassment at UN talks
Farhana Yamin warns that in the confidential atmosphere of international negotiations, transgressions go unreported and unpunished
Me too: I was sexually harassed at UN climate negotiations
Farhana Yamin, a climate change lawyer with 30 years’ experience, breaks her silence about the impact of unwanted sexual attention, urging others to speak out
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Australian state premier promises to veto funding for giant Adani coal mine
Prospects of massive Indian-owned coal development take a dip after Queensland Labor leader makes surprise announcement
UN talks lose climate champion El Haite after Moroccan royal censure
Influential diplomat will not take up her role mobilising private sector and regional action at summit beginning in Germany next week
Tensions emerge over timetable for raising climate ambition
China, India and other emerging economies are opposed to any mandatory raising of national climate pledges before 2020
India prepares for clashes with developed world at UN climate talks
Several areas of unfinished business mean talks in Bonn could ignite as developing nations seek concessions from the industrialised world
Looking for a happy ending to the 2017 climate disaster movie
The Fijian presidency and negotiators must do more at this month’s UN climate talks to help the victims of global warming impacts
Poor countries spending climate cash on rich world consultants
Lack of expertise means money for climate protection is spent on consultancy fees, which African officials say end up back in wealthy countries
Is the Paris climate deal legally binding or not?
“Like hell it’s non-binding,” Donald Trump has said of the 2015 UN deal to cut carbon pollution. Is he right?
Despite Trump, US climate team to forge on with Paris deal
As UN climate talks resume in Germany, a team of experienced, familiar diplomats are expected to take up many of the same positions the US has been fighting for years
Is China the leader UN climate talks need?
Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar overseas investment strategy has not caught up with his green rhetoric, environmentalists warn as countries head to Bonn climate summit
It’s time for new climate governance – from below
Sponsored content: The Bonn climate talks will see a huge push from local and state governments who are driving climate action everywhere
Climate Weekly: Startling admissions and supersonic emissions
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Jerry Brown: ‘California will sue Trump over climate’
Governor says state will use the courts to block the erosion of US climate actions, ‘just like the Republicans tried to block Obama’s efforts’
Climate Weekly: the vulnerable raise their voices
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Bonn climate talks raise tough questions about German coal
Chancellor Angela Merkel, with no concrete plans to curtail its huge coal industry, will be exposed as her country plays host to Fiji’s climate presidency
Azerbaijani gas pipeline gets $500m in EU public funds
Campaigners say EU development bank has abandoned fundamental principles by loaning money to repressive Aliyev government
Fiji announces $50m ‘climate bond’ ahead of COP23 presidency
Prime minister Frank Bainimarama says money raised with help from the World Bank sets an example for innovative green finance to protect the vulnerable
US climate talks delegation to be led by under secretary Thomas Shannon
Obama-appointed diplomat will lead the US at first climate talks since Trump’s Paris withdrawal speech, he once called climate change “one of the world’s great challenges”