UN climate talks
Podcast: What did we learn from last week’s UN climate talks?
Finance, fireworks and a text: Ed King, WWF’s Tasneem Essop and former BBC environment correspondent Richard Black discuss the recent Bonn negotiations
Video: Pete Ogden talks US climate politics and COP21
Pope Francis and Xi Jinping are raising the profile of climate change in Washington, says ex White House staffer and Center for American Progress senior fellow
Don’t bet on a Polish EU climate policy revolt – analysts
ANALYSIS: Opposition bid to renegotiate bloc’s 2030 package dismissed as ‘posturing’ as voters set to dump government, analysts say
UN calls for ministers as climate talks head for Paris
NEWS: As fraught final round of interim talks ends, diplomats turn to their political masters to land an elusive global deal
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
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
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
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
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
Canada primed for climate comeback, says Harper foe
ANALYSIS: Election win for frontrunner Liberals would restore reputation battered by incumbent, says ex-opposition leader Stephane Dion