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Laurence Tubiana: Paris deal should be operational by 2018
UN climate champion and France envoy talks to Climate Home on the sidelines of the Business and Climate summit in London, revealing her hopes and plans through to 2018
Saudi Arabia, Germany to ratify UN climate deal in 2016
Europe’s top economy and world’s second-largest oil producer signal plans to ratify global pact to limit warming to sub 2C
Mind the gap: Financing Africa’s energy boom
A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London’s Africa Energy Forum
Red planet: What Mars can teach us about geoengineering
The geology of meteorites from Mars could help to predict the long term effects of carbon capture and storage
Paris climate deal needs fossil fuel giants to ‘implode’
Research shows that a “controlled implosion” of the fossil fuel industry and a technological explosion of renewable energy are needed to meet climate targets
Segolene Royal: EU should approve UN climate deal in 2016
France’s influential environment chief says she wants heads of state to agree on backing the Paris deal before the next UN summit in November
Graphic: Spiralising Arctic sea ice records
Animation shows how north polar sea ice has shrunk year on year since PIOMAS records began in 1979
Crib notes: UK climate sceptics prepare post-Brexit challenge
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Weekly wrap: Brexit, climate, five days when the UK lost the plot
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Green business leaders bullish despite Brexit volatility
Crashing prices of solar power and rising levels of global interest in cost-effective ways to tackle climate change point to a positive future, despite UK leaving EU
India’s solar plans receive billion dollar boost
World Bank loan comes off back of major funding pledges from US and Germany as major economies try and wean Delhi off coal
Green Climate Fund to target ‘high risk’ investments
Projects in Africa and Asia set to benefit as GCF sets out stall to be top clean energy and resilience lender to developing countries
EU decaf: UK could copy Norway’s climate policy, say ministers
Norwegian minister Vidar Helgesen, French envoy Laurence Tubiana and Dutch minister Sharon Dijksma give their views on Brexit
Gore, Calderon spotlight Sweden and Germany’s coal dilemma
Influential former politicians and climate advocates weigh in on controversial Vattenfall brown coal deal
UK carbon target soothes investor nerves amid Brexit confusion
Parliament set to confirm low carbon direction, but leadership contest spells continued uncertainty over policy details
US, Canada, Mexico agree climate partnership
The “three amigos” set targets to get half of electricity from clean sources and cut methane emissions 40-45% by 2025
Scientists: Window for avoiding 1.5C global warming ‘closed’
World is almost certain to breach danger threshold for millions of vulnerable people, study finds
Amber Rudd: UK will be a climate leader post Brexit
Government will endorse new 2032 goal to reduce fossil fuel pollution this week, will work with US, India, Japan and China on delivering Paris climate deal goals
UN climate chief to UK: ‘Stay calm and transform on’
Christiana Figueres tells business leaders that Brexit vote is not an obstacle to continued cooperation between Britain and the EU, reports the Guardian
Moody’s calls for rapid Paris climate deal approval
Credit giant says speedy ratification will calm markets, pledges to use UN climate pact as benchmark for rating companies