World
Climate takes low profile as Xi Jinping visits UK
ANALYSIS: Britain is wooing China’s president for contentious investment in nuclear plants, but the real opportunities are elsewhere
Disney, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s back White House climate drive
NEWS: Leading multinationals sign up to Obama climate pledge as president braces for GOP showdown over plans for COP21 Paris deal
Canada ousts Stephen Harper in boon for climate
NEWS: Justin Trudeau election victory braces Canada for a climate policy refit, but observers hesitant to predict major overhauls
Norway’s oil-rich capital first to divest from fossil fuels
NEWS: Oslo “takes responsibility for climate” in ridding $9 billion pension fund of coal, oil and gas investments say surging Greens
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
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
Brexit: what impact on the climate?
ANALYSIS: Britain is to vote in a referendum on its membership of the EU by 2017. Where could that leave its climate policy? We asked five experts
US freezing out potent HFCs with fresh curbs
NEWS: Obama administration and businesses announce cuts to super-warming gases ahead of ozone layer treaty meet
Saudis to deliver climate plan by Paris, says Tubiana
NEWS: Oil-exporting kingdom will respect UN process and submit by December summit, says French climate change ambassador
India ex-climate minister lays out ‘minimums’ for Paris deal
NEWS: Tool to both verify countries’ carbon cuts and ratchet them up in the future vital to summit’s success, says Jairam Ramesh
Who’d buy a coal mine? Two very different bids
ANALYSIS: X2 Resources and Greenpeace have their reasons for acquiring coal assets amid low commodity prices and climate concerns
China aims to quadruple solar installations by 2020
NEWS: Bullish projection brings relief to panel manufacturers, while Agricultural Bank of China issues US$1 billion green bond
Paris: a once-in-a-century deal, says EU climate boss
NEWS: Ambition of carbon-cutting pledges show new UN approach is working, but mechanism to ratchet up actions vital for road ahead
Yeb Sano heads for Paris, praying for a climate miracle
NEWS: Former Philippines negotiator says world needs new economic order to overcome global warming and ensure development among the planet’s poorest
6 elections to watch before Paris climate summit
ANALYSIS: A shift in public mood at the ballot box can boot out climate laggards or propel them to power. Here are six on the radar from Canada to Myanmar
UK must cut emissions 14% higher than EU average by 2030
NEWS: Burden sharing deal means major economies have to shoulder more of the bloc’s pledge to ditch fossil fuels and invest in cleaner forms of energy
Bolivia vilifies capitalism in ten climate commandments
NEWS: South American country proposes ‘structural solutions to the climate crisis’ in belated pledge towards UN deal
Horn of Africa droughts likely to intensify, sparking security fears
NEWS: Evidence stretching back 40,000 years shows that global warming will increase drying in a region of East Africa where drought already causes humanitarian crises
Nato security ‘at stake’ from climate change, say lawmakers
NEWS: Euro-Atlantic military alliance told to set foreign and security policies in tune with climate threat by parliamentary assembly