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China reshuffle brings ‘challenges’ for national carbon market: senior official
Many more staff need training on the emissions trading system as climate policy moves to a new, enlarged environment ministry, says director Li Gao
Trump and Macron plant a tree in DC, but disagree on climate change
On a state visit to the US, French president Macron brought a green gift but showed no sign of convincing Trump to reconsider his rejection of the Paris Agreement
Three quarters of EU climate finance goes to middle income countries: report
The Act Alliance is calling on the EU to direct more climate finance to the most vulnerable, after finding Turkey and Ukraine were the biggest beneficiaries
Commonwealth leaders express ‘grave concern’ about climate change impacts
Without urgent action, global warming could push 100 million people into poverty by 2030, warns coalition of developed and vulnerable countries
Hurricane-hit Barbudans protest to save communal land from developers
Outside a Commonwealth summit in London, islanders demand their Antiguan prime minister, who called them ‘imbeciles’, reveal how aid money has been spent
UK will legislate net-zero carbon emissions target, says minister
Britain will legislate new emissions targets and order a review on bringing them in line with the Paris Agreement, minister Claire Perry announced
Commonwealth heads meet in London amid claims of climate inequality
The UK emits as much as 18 of its former colonies, a report finds, and, along with Australia and Canada, isn’t doing its fair share to cut carbon
Africa holds EU climate agenda ransom
As a tough year of talks begins, the EU is searching for allies in a fight with China over the rules of the Paris Agreement, but Africa’s help will come at a cost
China’s new environment ministry unveiled, with huge staff boost
New offices required to house mega-department, but will climate change survive as a priority after being shifted out of the powerful development commission?
US agency calls for ban on controversial coal mine ‘self-bonds’
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to make coal mining companies pay for environmental clean-up and reduce the risk to taxpayers
Documents shed light on BP’s failures in the Great Australian Bight
A major oil spill in the region would have covered up to 750km of beaches and disrupted whale migration, reveal government documents BP tried to suppress
Norway oil fund omits meatpacker JBS from deforestation watch list
The $1 trillion investor is raising deforestation concerns with a number of beef companies but not the Amazon’s biggest cattle buyer, despite evidence against it
Costa Rica president-elect promises to lead the country towards an oil-free future
Carlos Alvarado Quesada is promising to replace petrol and diesel in the transport system with clean energy, comparing the task to abolishing the army
10 years of success, but the UK climate change act needs an upgrade
The pioneering piece of legislation has helped bring emissions down, but the challenges of the Paris Agreement require more ambition from the government
Four ways the Trump administration has buried climate science
When Donald Trump became US president, there were fears for public information on climate science. So what happened?
UN Security Council makes ‘historic’ warning on climate threat to Somalia
Drought, desertification, land degradation and food insecurity are driving conflict in the Horn of African country, says security council
Europe’s coming gigafactory boom, mapped
Across Europe a wave of gigafactories are coming online, ready to meet the battery demands of a continent-wide switch to electric cars
UK MPs call on Gove to trigger climate reporting clause
Financial regulators drew parliamentarians’ ire after failing to meet their demands to voluntarily report their climate adaptation plans
Coal tycoon governor Jim Justice uses loophole to leave mines and workers idle
Companies owned by WV governor exploited a supposedly temporary status to defer environmental clean up and leave miners in limbo, in some cases for decades
White House to tap energy official as new climate lead – reports
Wells Griffith, who worked on the Trump campaign, has spent the last year negotiating exports deals for the US energy industry