Climate politics
Podcast: What does China want from the Paris climate talks?
Greenpeace China analyst Li Shuo outlines Beijing’s key asks at COP21 to Climate Home’s Megan Darby in our latest podcast from the negotiations
COP21: US joins ‘coalition of high ambition’ at Paris talks
AS IT HAPPENED: UN releases new ‘clean’ draft text for agreement, US joins 100+ coalition of countries calling for tougher climate goals
Ecuador minister ‘quietly optimistic’ at Paris climate summit
INTERVIEW: Daniel Ortega Pacheco tells Climate Home French presidency has impressed but main test is to come, and questions impact of EU’s new ‘coalition of ambition’
Pretty green: The youth clamouring for a climate deal
BLOG: They’re unruly, idealistic and shout loudest for justice. But are they being heard? We met five twentysomethings at COP21
UN to release ‘clean’ draft of Paris climate deal
NEWS: President of COP21 talks tells delegates he expects to have publish new condensed set of options for a global warming pact on Wednesday at 1pm
Paris climate talks: What do the last 3 days have in store?
ANALYSIS: Oil producers, forest nations, high-tech trading centres, low lying and desert countries all have distinct interests to protect. This is where it gets serious.
Meet the suits at Paris climate change talks
ANALYSIS: Why are business leaders showing up at COP21? Climate Home asked chief executives what they are doing about global warming
Trillions hang on two sentences as Paris climate talks near climax
NEWS: Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and China among countries that reject calls for Paris deal to move financial flows away from carbon intensive forms of fuel
Podcast: How climate vulnerable countries are setting the agenda in Paris
Megan Darby talks to Monica Araya, former Costa Rica negotiator and founder of think tank Nivela, about an extraordinary push for a 1.5C global warming limit at COP21
Will Venezuela opposition victory revise climate stance?
ANALYSIS: Opposition’s rout of Maduro government unlikely to transform South American petropower though ideological posturing could make way for pragmatism
Paris climate deal must not leave vulnerable to foot the bill
COMMENT: A levy on fossil fuel companies could pay for protection of the world’s poor from climate damage, argues Julie-Anne Richards
Coke, Sony among 114 firms to cut carbon in line with 2C
NEWS: Businesses with emissions equal to South Africa and nearly $1trn in profits pledge to help cap global warming below agreed danger threshold
Climate justice: A millennial’s perspective in Paris
ANALYSIS: There cannot be climate justice if Paris does not deliver a shared agreement on climate, argue climate researchers from Latin America and the UK
Podcast: What is Russia up to at the Paris climate talks?
Megan Darby talks to WWF Russia’s Alexey Kokorin about Vladimir Putin and why forests are the best bet for Russian climate policy
UK opposition leaders urge climate policy rethink
NEWS: Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn say evident dangers of climate change should prompt Number 10 to reverse green cuts
Israel-Palestine conflict seeps into Paris climate talks
NEWS: Saudi Arabia accused of spiking efforts to emphasise importance of protecting communities by inserting reference to Israel-Palestine conflict
Brazil tasked with resolving rich-poor divide at climate talks
NEWS: Hosts hope Latin American giant can help draft compromise allowing developed and developing nations to back new global climate deal on Friday
Scientists: 1.5C warming limit means fossil fuel phase-out by 2030
NEWS: Global greenhouse gas emissions stalled in 2015, but tough target demanded by climate vulnerable countries looks unattainable
Meet the climate sceptics: Heartland punks COP21 in Paris
VIDEO: Infamous sceptical think tank on man-made global warming holds private bash at Paris hotel to ‘examine the data’ of mainstream science
In Paris, polluters in focus as investors shun climate risk
ANALYSIS: So far, the most visible investor impact of climate change is divestment. But a bigger, quieter shift has started, to low carbon, and “climate aware” polluters