Latest climate change news
Green economy now worth as much as fossil fuel sector
FTSE Russell reports 6% of global equity market, roughly $4 trillion, comes from clean energy and environmental service sector
Job of ending coal in Germany handed to 31-member committee
Commission will set a phase-out timeline for coal, but greens warn it may be too weak and divided to salvage Germany’s reputation as a climate leader
83% of Turks favour renewable energy over coal, survey finds
Turkish president Erdoğan plans massive coal expansion but researchers find concern over climate change unifies a divided society
Hawaii signs law to become carbon neutral by 2045
Pacific islands note threat of sea level rise while setting toughest climate target of any US state
G7 fossil fuel subsidies worth $100bn a year to industry, study finds
UK accused of masking subsidies to fossil fuels, ahead of meeting of G7 countries, which have agreed to end taxpayer support by 2025
Climate Weekly: Trump’s Paris anniversary
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Fiat Chrysler to eliminate diesel passenger cars by 2021
Carmaker caught up in emissions rigging scandal calls time on diesel engines for passenger vehicles
US Republican mayors pursuing climate policies undercover
Study shows that while Republican mayors are unwilling to join climate coalitions, they and their voters favour action on emissions
Trump has damaged the Paris Agreement, say its architects
One year on from Donald Trump’s announcement he would withdraw the US from the UN climate pact, leading figures assess the “dire consequences”
Canada oil pipeline buyout ‘subsidising a market failure’
Nationalisation of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline breaches a G7 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, say analysts, ahead of leaders summit
Global funds back desert solar to bring power to 250 million Africans
Desert to Power project aims to expand solar power across the Sahel region, where electricity access remains critically low
US cities sue Big Oil, but ignore their own climate guilt
Rich cities and counties claiming reparations from oil companies increases the inequality at the heart of climate change. But it can be fixed
Netherlands climate lawsuit goes to court of appeals
Urgenda and 900 citizens successfully sued in 2015 for stronger Dutch climate ambition, but the government is challenging the court’s right to rule on policy decisions
Climate Weekly: Shareholder climate activism 2.0
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Investors have made oil majors consider safe climate limits. What next?
Even holdout Exxon Mobil has analysed what holding global warming to 2C means for its business. Now the sector needs to invest – or divest – accordingly
Other countries ‘highly unlikely’ to replicate US shale gas boom, says UN report
Fracking transformed US energy production, but Europe and the rest of the world will struggle to repeat the trick, finds global report
EU taken to court over 2030 emissions target
Ten families from around the world and an indigenous Swedish youth association are suing European institutions for stronger climate action to protect their rights
Norway at loggerheads with DR Congo over forest protection payments
International donors have frozen funding to conserve the world’s second largest rainforest, with the DRC environment minister said to have gone “rogue”
US launches nuclear initiative to cut carbon with Canada, Japan, UK
While the Trump administration generally avoids discussion of climate change, it is participating in a coalition to promote “clean, reliable” nuclear power
Climate Home News wins online media award
At a prestigious UK journalism awards ceremony, CHN was named best specialist or local news site of 2018, beating bigger rivals like BBC East of England