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Small forest users can outcompete agribusiness – study
NEWS: Finance must flow to local enterprises to slow deforestation and internal displacement wrought by clearance for agriculture, report says
California state pension funds to divest from coal
NEWS: CalPERS and CalSTRS will sell up to US$240 million in mine holdings after lawmakers’ decision, in win for campaigners
Investors urge businesses to quit climate-unfriendly EU lobby groups
NEWS: Nine companies including Glencore, Rio Tinto and BP targeted over membership of Brussels trade body Business Europe
Arctic countries vow ‘urgent action’ to slow polar melt
NEWS: US-led Glacier summit warns of climate impacts in sensitive region, but China and India do not sign declaration
Obama makes Arctic appeal for action on climate
NEWS: “This is a solvable problem if we start now,” US president says at close of Glacier summit in Anchorage, Alaska
Arctic climate summit: Do leaders love their children enough?
COMMENT: President Obama spoke of his daughters at the Glacier meeting in Alaska, but it was a cab driver whose words hit home
Seven things to know about Monday’s Arctic climate summit
BLOG: US president Barack Obama is heading to the Glacier meet in Alaska on Monday, but what is it and why does it matter?
Obama heads to Arctic to hammer climate message
NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks
Mexico’s dragging energy reforms threaten green reputation
NEWS: Developing country was hailed for early climate pledge, but the Senate is being slow to sign off crucial renewables law
EU should pressure Western Balkans to phase out coal – report
NEWS: As leaders meet in Vienna to discuss closer cooperation, they must address the energy transition, argues CAN Europe
Middle East faces ‘extreme’ water stress by 2040
NEWS: Shifting rainfall patterns and rising populations could drive conflict in many countries, warns World Resources Institute
What does China’s Black Monday mean for the climate?
NEWS: Shanghai stock market crash will have rippling impacts on emissions, the green economy and Paris negotiations
US Navy invests in world’s largest solar farm
NEWS: Mesquite 210MW project soon to be overtaken by Indian and Chinese mega-arrays, as cheap solar panels compete with coal
Russia, Ukraine dodgy carbon offsets cost the climate – study
NEWS: UN-backed scheme increased greenhouse gas emissions by 600Mt CO2e, researchers have found, due to accounting flaws
India primed for renewables spurt in climate plan
NEWS: World’s fourth-largest carbon polluter could target 300GW of clean capacity by 2030 in anticipated pledge to UN deal
Denmark minister seeks to water down climate goals
NEWS: Country’s 2020 emissions target will be “very expensive” to meet, says figure in recently elected government
DRC climate plan ‘leaves laggards with no excuse’
INTERVIEW: If conflict-riven state can forge a carbon-cutting strategy then so can others says Kinshasa’s lead climate diplomat
Brazil backs long term zero carbon goal as Merkel visits
NEWS: President Dilma Rousseff declared support for G7 stance on emissions phase-out after receiving German leader in Brasilia
Obama stakes claim to Paris climate legacy
NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home
EU climate chief outlines criteria for Paris success
NEWS: World must agree to zero emissions trajectory by 2100 says Miguel Arias Canete, or 2015 deal will lack credibility and impact