Latest climate change news
Australia PM Turnbull stands by coal amid moratorium calls
NEWS: Recently annointed prime minister is defending mine expansion plans, to the ire of Pacific neighbours and climate campaigners
Video: Jairam Ramesh talks up India’s climate progress
New Delhi has taken controversial steps to reduce emissions intensity and push solar power, says former environment minister
IMF to factor climate risk into world economic forecasts
NEWS: Influential finance body is mainstreaming climate concerns in move that could spotlight threats to oil exporters, say experts
Indonesia’s Jokowi cuts short US trip to fire-fight at home
NEWS: President Joko Widodo ends state visit as forest fire crisis engulfs new administration, but wins new US aid
Polish president vetoes Kyoto Protocol, pending new analysis
NEWS: Andrzej Duda says he wants to see impact of treaty’s second phase on economy in decision that sparks anger in developing world
US and Japan strike deal to cut coal finance
NEWS: Obama administration reportedly gets Japan on board to phase out controversial coal export credits
Prince Charles warns financial sector of climate risk
NEWS: Heir to British throne asks investors if they will be ‘future takers’ or ‘future makers’ at City of London event on stranded assets
Poland can break coal chokehold, says clean power body
NEWS: Country can loosen fossil fuel’s grip on energy system by quintupling share of renewables to 38% by 2030, says IRENA
US considers Bikini Atoll climate refugee claims
NEWS: Decades after a nuclear bomb uprooted a small group of Pacific islanders, global warming could make them homeless yet again
Video: Monica Araya on rich-poor climate relations
Developing countries are not just victims of climate change, says former Costa Rican negotiator and founder of think tank Nivela
Persian Gulf faces ‘intolerable’ heat on current emissions trends
NEWS: It is in the interests of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to back global action on climate change, study shows
Podcast: What did we learn from last week’s UN climate talks?
Finance, fireworks and a text: Ed King, WWF’s Tasneem Essop and former BBC environment correspondent Richard Black discuss the recent Bonn negotiations
UN land restoration pact boosts Paris climate summit
NEWS: Diplomats strike ‘breakthrough’ deal to halt degradation of world’s terrain from 2030, but US$30bn price tag looms large
Video: Pete Ogden talks US climate politics and COP21
Pope Francis and Xi Jinping are raising the profile of climate change in Washington, says ex White House staffer and Center for American Progress senior fellow
No secret Paris climate deal in making, stresses Tubiana
NEWS: Plan B does not exist says France’s top climate diplomat, urging envoys to accelerate work on new text for global pact
UN to reveal scale of challenge facing Paris climate summit
CRIB NOTES 26-30 OCT: Berlin to host INDC review launch, Figueres heads for London, Obama talks tough, Poles vote for coal
Don’t bet on a Polish EU climate policy revolt – analysts
ANALYSIS: Opposition bid to renegotiate bloc’s 2030 package dismissed as ‘posturing’ as voters set to dump government, analysts say
UN calls for ministers as climate talks head for Paris
NEWS: As fraught final round of interim talks ends, diplomats turn to their political masters to land an elusive global deal
Sri Lanka makes compensation plea in UN climate pledge
NEWS: Island off tip of southern India wants reimbursing for the $420m it plans to spend by 2025 on warding off extreme weather
Weekly wrap: G77 gets its mojo back in Bonn
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