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IEA: China is building a third of Africa’s new power capacity
Chinese state-owned companies are increasingly active in sub-Saharan Africa and dominate the hydropower dam business
Laurence Tubiana: Paris deal should be operational by 2018
UN climate champion and France envoy talks to Climate Home on the sidelines of the Business and Climate summit in London, revealing her hopes and plans through to 2018
Saudi Arabia, Germany to ratify UN climate deal in 2016
Europe’s top economy and world’s second-largest oil producer signal plans to ratify global pact to limit warming to sub 2C
Mind the gap: Financing Africa’s energy boom
A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London’s Africa Energy Forum
Segolene Royal: EU should approve UN climate deal in 2016
France’s influential environment chief says she wants heads of state to agree on backing the Paris deal before the next UN summit in November
India’s solar plans receive billion dollar boost
World Bank loan comes off back of major funding pledges from US and Germany as major economies try and wean Delhi off coal
Green Climate Fund to target ‘high risk’ investments
Projects in Africa and Asia set to benefit as GCF sets out stall to be top clean energy and resilience lender to developing countries
EU decaf: UK could copy Norway’s climate policy, say ministers
Norwegian minister Vidar Helgesen, French envoy Laurence Tubiana and Dutch minister Sharon Dijksma give their views on Brexit
UK carbon target soothes investor nerves amid Brexit confusion
Parliament set to confirm low carbon direction, but leadership contest spells continued uncertainty over policy details
US, Canada, Mexico agree climate partnership
The “three amigos” set targets to get half of electricity from clean sources and cut methane emissions 40-45% by 2025
Amber Rudd: UK will be a climate leader post Brexit
Government will endorse new 2032 goal to reduce fossil fuel pollution this week, will work with US, India, Japan and China on delivering Paris climate deal goals
UK leadership contender Boris Johnson ‘not a climate denier’
Conservative colleague Lord Barker insists former London mayor would not unpick environmental legislation if elected leader
Why the climate v development finance fight must stop
Tacking global warming and ensuring millions gain access to clean water, food and energy should not be tackled separately – they’re both sides of the same coin
Will Brexit really mean a UK climate policy bonfire?
It’s easy to assume Brexit means a cull of green policies, but the strength of the low carbon economy suggests that’s not a given
EU climate plans stall as Brexit talks take over
UK’s probable departure from the EU throws carbon cutting agenda into confusion just as countries were preparing to approve Paris climate agreement
It’s an act of vandalism, but Brexit won’t kill UK green growth
A vote to leave the EU has left many distraught, but the underlying fundamentals of the low carbon economy are strong, argues E3G director Jonathan Gaventa
Crib notes: UK climate plans in limbo as Brexit chaos deepens
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Post Brexit, will UK government approve 2030 climate target?
With climate and euro sceptics close to regaining Number 10, British climate policy looks set for a rocky ride this summer
Brexit reaction: How will it impact global climate politics?
Scientists, politicians, green groups and the international community react to stunning British vote to leave European Union
UK votes to leave EU, fears grow for climate ambition
Six questions for UK and EU low carbon ambitions as British voters reject continued membership of world’s largest single market