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China makes ‘watershed’ $3.1 billion climate finance offer

NEWS: Beijing offers billions to help developing countries, promises to scale back carbon intensive investments

NEWS: Superpowers closer on mutual plans for Paris deal, China to contribute climate finance and open carbon market in 2017

Updates as leader of Catholic church addresses top US lawmakers and warns of need to address poverty, global warming

NEWS: President Obama welcomes Pope Francis to the White House at start of historic six-day trip

NEWS: US president confident Paris will see climate deal, thinks pace of carbon cutting will accelerate once structure is in place

NEWS: Climate Week’s diet of low-carbon announcements pep ups December summit as leaders fly in for UN jamboree

GUARDIAN: Presidential candidate says the controversial project is a ‘distraction’ and not in the best interests of climate fight

NEWS: Released greenhouse gases could rack up huge costs by year 2200, but swift action would dramatically cut impact, study says

NEWS: British cuts to clean energy support have baffled financiers, says consultancy EY, while Santiago has a winning strategy

NEWS: World’s top carbon polluters to sign declaration binding cities and states to a raft of green policies like carbon cuts

NEWS: A state of emergency has been declared in two regions as long-running drought and heatwave combine to spark blazes

BLOG: Matthew Barzun, President Obama’s ambassador to the UK, invites climate twitterati to round table at London residence

NEWS: CalPERS and CalSTRS will sell up to US$240 million in mine holdings after lawmakers’ decision, in win for campaigners

NEWS: US-led Glacier summit warns of climate impacts in sensitive region, but China and India do not sign declaration

NEWS: “This is a solvable problem if we start now,” US president says at close of Glacier summit in Anchorage, Alaska

COMMENT: President Obama spoke of his daughters at the Glacier meeting in Alaska, but it was a cab driver whose words hit home

BLOG: US president Barack Obama is heading to the Glacier meet in Alaska on Monday, but what is it and why does it matter?

NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks

NEWS: Mesquite 210MW project soon to be overtaken by Indian and Chinese mega-arrays, as cheap solar panels compete with coal

NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home