UN climate talks
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
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?
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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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
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”
Rich countries must provide funds for climate change victims
UN talks on loss and damage are failing to deliver for vulnerable communities. After a devastating hurricane season, the developed world must step up
Climate Weekly: Will Germany end coal?
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US ‘will not speculate’ on climate treaty after leaving Unesco over Palestine
The body that oversees the Paris treaty also recognises Palestine, raising the prospect that Thursday’s decision to leave Unesco sets a precedent
Nicaragua to join Paris climate deal in solidarity with ‘first victims’
Announcement makes Syria the only party not to have adopted the 2015 deal, while the US is threatening to leave in 2020
China, EU and Canada to take lead on climate at Montreal meeting
New partners move to take on global climate leadership at meeting in Canada this weekend as US influence declines
Irma forces Caribbean delegates to abandon UN climate science meeting
Representatives from Caribbean island nations want to put extreme weather damage on the agenda for the next IPCC comprehensive report
US senate committee votes to reinstate funding to UN climate treaty
The committee passed an amendment to give $10m to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an organisation Donald Trump wants to cut off
EU and others to fill UN climate science funding gap left by Trump
Donald Trump’s decision to axe US donations has left the IPCC with an urgent cash crunch. Sources say some governments are set to increase their contributions
US state department to abolish climate change envoy
Critics say Rex Tillerson’s restructuring will further diminish US’ standing in international affairs