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Vattenfall takes US$3bn hit to exit German coal operations
Swedish utility cuts its losses in controversial transfer of dirty lignite operations to Czech energy company EPH, to reduce carbon exposure
Solar is now cheaper than coal, says India energy minister
Energy minister says power realities are changing fast, predicting a fast uptake in solar energy despite concerns over baseload and storage
Why implementing the Paris Agreement starts at home
European commissioner Miguel Arias Canete and Dutch environment chief Sharon Dijksma call on governments to get to work on Paris climate agreement
Renminbi power: Will China’s wallet shape the planet?
China has big financial firepower. It must channel it towards low carbon through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to lead from the front on climate
Oceans warming too fast for Great Barrier Reef – study
Corals survived bleaching in the past as gradual warming gave time to adapt. That’s not so certain in the future
Europe’s Keystone XL: Planned gas pipeline is reckless
The Southern Gas Corridor risks locking in higher fossil fuel dependence and wasting colossal amounts of public money
Drought stumps Indian cricket league
Thirteen games to be moved from Maharashtra state next month due to severe dryness, judge rules
Panama to deliver climate plan at Paris signing ceremony
Central American state will deliver belated plan at UN signing ceremony diplomat says, leaving six holdouts remaining
North Korea set to sign Paris climate deal
Pyongyang neglected to submit UN climate pledge, but will formally back agreement at 22 April ceremony
Clinton v Sanders: Who can deliver the radical climate policy needed?
Incrementalism or revolution? That’s a question facing Democrat supporters and climate campaigners as they decide between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders
Letter from America: IMF urges low carbon policy stability
COMMENT: Core message from IMF/World Bank Spring Meeting is that governments must invest in low carbon revolution, writes UK shadow climate change minister Barry Gardiner
Apple has ‘strongest climate policy’ of business world
NEWS: Tech titan scores first ‘A’ in NGO ranking and is commended for use of renewable energy and green advocacy
Diverging views: Sanders and Clinton on climate change
ANALYSIS: Democrat candidates both agree global warming is a pressing issue, but their plans to tackle the issue are significantly different (Part 1 of 2)
US set for intergenerational ‘trial of the century’
NEWS: Magistrate judge rules young plaintiffs can sue the federal government for allegedly harming their future by failing to act on climate change
Are small nuclear reactors a clean energy solution?
NEWS: Nuclear companies meet to discuss licensing the controversial modular reactors set to cost billions of dollars and be built near towns
Latin America regional bank to scale up climate investments
NEWS: Inter-American Development Group aims to double spending on green projects to US$4bn a year by 2020
Save the Children: Ethiopia ‘deeply affected’ by climate change
NEWS: Famine-hit country faces worse drought in future, warns aid chief and former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Islands of Gauguin, Robinson Crusoe could become parched paradise
NEWS: Climate change could aggravate water shortages in three-quarters of world’s small islands by 2050, researchers warn
Gulf states win concessions in HFC phase-out talks
NEWS: Hot countries offered four-year grace period to comply with rules to replace potent warming gases in air conditioning
Czech buyers of German coal plants linked to Panama Papers
NEWS: Swedish utility Vattenfall poised to sell dirty lignite operations to Czech billionaires who used offshore accounts to buy yacht and property