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Where is the most vulnerable country to climate change?
Vast, dry and poor, Chad is more susceptible to climate change than any other country
Trump lawyers try ‘extraordinary trick’ to quash youth climate case
Representatives of 21 young people suing US government over climate inaction said justice department’s use of rare legal device is ‘offensive to the rule of law’
India’s tumbling solar prices ‘a race to extinction’
India’s record-breaking solar prices are driven by a distorted market, in thrall to cheap Chinese imports, say analysts
Coal industry begs Congress to save carbon capture from Trump
Future of US carbon capture and storage looks shaky after Trump tried to cut domestic research then choked off access to international collaboration
Adani’s Australian mine green light can’t change economics of coal
The ‘final investment decision’ taken by Adani this week leaves many near and long term questions unanswered about the project’s viability
Costa Rica bids for world’s cleanest transport system
With a 98% renewable power grid, Costa Rica is turning its climate efforts to dirty transport, with public companies promoting electric vehicles
Trump hasn’t actually left the Paris climate deal. Not yet
Despite the headlines and Donald Trump’s rhetoric, the official US position remains unchanged and where things go from here are unclear
EU-China: New ‘climate leaders’ are also enamoured of fossil fuels
Gas imports to Europe from the US and massive future coal burning in China undermine the rhetoric of the world’s new self-proclaimed climate spearheads
Club of Rome president: climate sanctions on US ‘a lovely idea’
“I suspect he is a loser president,” says Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. But conceded trade barrier from the EU were unlikely
Trump desire to renegotiate Paris deal ‘incoherent’ and ‘clumsy’
Trump’s speech was “divisive”, “unnecessarily isolating” and utterly misunderstood the agreement from which he has now withdrawn, experts said
Republican ‘climate caucus’ offered little support for Paris deal
Republican who signed up to climate action all but evaporated in the lead up to Trump’s momentous decision, highlighting deep-set opposition to global cooperation
Bangladesh backtracks on carbon tax proposal ahead of election year
Mooted climate policy was dropped from the budget announced on Thursday, as energy and transport lobbies complained it would raise living costs
EU-China climate statement is a manifesto for a new global order
The ten-page document affirms, in extraordinarily strong language, that the EU and China intend to make the US irrelevant
White House debate on Paris was never about climate change
The wrangling between Trump’s advisors was always about how best to burn more fossil fuels
Donald Trump says US will leave Paris climate agreement
Donald Trump withdraws the US from 2015 Paris climate agreement, leaving the US standing almost alone against action on climate change
As it happened: Trump says US will withdraw from Paris climate deal
Live coverage as the US president announces heavily-rumoured decision to leave Paris climate agreement. Follow @karlmathiesen or email [email protected]
Leaked EU-China climate statement – in full
As Trump reportedly prepares to walk out of the Paris climate deal, the EU and China have prepared a statement that sets them up to replace the US as climate leaders
UN climate conference 2018 heads to heartland of Polish coal
Katowice, home to the largest coal company in the EU, will host the pivotal 2018 climate talks
Trump schedules Paris announcement for 3pm Thursday
Join our live blog from around 2pm ET (7pm BST) for updates from the US and around the world as Trump makes his decision on the Paris accord
Trump told Pruitt to make plan to leave Paris deal, stay in UNFCCC
Environment chief asked by president to draft a strategy that would take the US out of the Paris climate deal, but keep the country within the wider UN climate process