COMMENT: Car use dropped and local politicians were praised for decisive action, but a partial driving ban did not lead to cleaner air as many had hoped
CRIB NOTES 18-24 Jan: IRENA summit touts renewable future, Taiwan gets first woman president, global elites head to World Economic Forum
ANALYSIS: Doubling clean power generation within 15 years could add a Mexico to global GDP and improve wellbeing, says clean energy think tank tank
INTERVIEW: British scientist Jamie Craggs hopes pioneering project could protect delicate coral organisms from global warming and ocean acidification
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NEWS: American fossil fuel lobby takes government’s side against 21 young plaintiffs suing for stronger action on global warming
UPDATED: US Department of the Interior announces moratorium on leases while overhauling system to reflect climate cost of extracting fossil fuels
NEWS: Senegal, Mexico call for protections at conservation summit to limit exports of lucrative hardwood used in luxury furniture
ANALYSIS: Green bonds, clean energy and efficient infrastructure offer vast potential in a market one banker describes as ’50 shades of green’
COMMENT: The iconography of global warming is stuck in a rut. New research can help get the climate story across visually
ANALYSIS: A month after COP21 summit, club of major economies weighs policy tweaks to meet tough global warming goal
NEWS: Ing-wen Tsai, who leads the presidential polls, envisions a ‘nuclear-free homeland’ with a bigger role for energy efficiency and renewables
NEWS: Climate disasters seen doing greatest damage for first time, finds World Economic Forum survey of global risks
NEWS: Most people don’t identify with environmentalists, surveys show, so react cynically to images of demonstrations
NEWS: New figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance demonstrate clean energy surge is ‘irreversible’ say analysts, despite falling oil and gas prices
NEWS: Scientists forecast long delay to return of glaciers as carbon emissions screw the Earth’s climate systems
ANALYSIS: Weather phenomenon exposes how unprepared world is for economic, security and humanitarian impacts of global warming
NEWS: Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd says transport sector must accelerate transition to lower carbon forms of fuel
INTERVIEW: Region’s turbine makers eye red-hot developing world as EU28 goes tepid on sector, says Brussels industry chief
NEWS: New laws under consideration will likely spark more tree-cutting − despite serious drought already contributing to a big increase in vast destructive fires