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Kerry criticises ‘vested interests’ as he steps aside for oil man
Secretary of state set to be replaced by Exxon boss Rex Tillerson said US faces ‘resistance from combination of doubters and people making a lot of money’
Obama: ‘I didn’t kill coal, gas did’
Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of waging a “war on coal”, but the current president says it was “market forces”
Obama warns Trump against quitting Paris climate deal
Writing in the journal Science, outgoing US president tells his successor that scrapping the UN’s 2015 climate pact would lead to economic and diplomatic harm
South Asia’s women suffer as climate migration rises
Feminization of environmental migration is already underway in South Asia but governments have been slow to recognise the role of climate change
Weekly wrap: China cements low carbon plans
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How China is reinforcing its climate targets for 2020
This week’s hotly anticipated five-year plan for energy shows stronger ambition for shifting from coal to cleaner sources
Mapped: China’s $32 billion overseas clean energy splurge
Long known for its huge foreign investments in coal, oil and gas, Beijing is now starting to splash the cash on greener technologies
Kerry warns Trump against nixing climate progress
Outgoing secretary of state’s final memo to president Obama outlines his department’s successes, but warns that “the months and years ahead will be critical”
China to invest $361bn in clean power by 2020
Five-year plan sets country on path to get 15% of its energy from non-fossil sources by the end of the decade
Into the abyss: oil states face turmoil as climate policies bite
A transition to green energy sources threatens the stability of oil-rich states like Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia
Can Saudi Arabia’s regime survive in a greener world?
The race is on for Saudi Arabia to find new sources of income before the oil age peters out
France delivers 2050 climate plan to UN
Francois Hollande joins leaders in US, Germany, Mexico and Canada in delivering long-term plan to slash emissions to United Nations climate body
Is Germany’s renewable power boom stalling?
Analysis of 2016 data by leading solar research institute shows no growth in electricity from renewable sources
Why India’s waste pickers are key to a fair climate deal
Low-carbon measures could increase urban poverty if a clean transition is not carefully managed, research from IIED suggests
The age of Xi: will China flex its climate muscles in 2017?
Beijing’s policies have seen China invest heavily in renewables and support the UN’s first major climate pact – but without US cover it will face new scrutiny this year
Climate kids call on Rex Tillerson to testify in court
Plaintiffs in lawsuit against oil majors and the US government want Exxon chief-turned-secretary of state to give evidence the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration
Trump’s climate impact could be ‘vanishingly small’
Trump has called climate change a hoax, but what’s truly scary, scientists tell ProPublica, is how much larger the problem is than one American president.
Don’t kill US climate plans, 15 states warn Trump
Attorneys general from Democrat states and four sub-state jurisdictions say they will see the new president in court if he rips up low carbon policies
Our climate heroes of 2016
Climate Home writers pick some of the defiant optimists they came across in 2016
China reveals 2016 coal power crackdown
Beijing government says it is starting to cancel coal projects, but critics say country is wasting billions on polluting capacity it does not require