Latest climate change news
Vulnerable countries warned: Protect your legal rights in a Paris accord
COMMENT: Countries may be waiving claims to future climate compensation in a new deal. Know what you’re signing away, writes barrister Tim Crosland
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: It’s (not) all these negotiators are asking
SKETCH: Venezuela’s Claudia Salerno drops the C-bomb (no, the other one) after climate talks session starts without her in Bonn
Green Climate Fund chief confident US will stump up
NEWS: US will deliver the US$3 billion promised to help poor countries go green despite Republican opposition, says top official
United Arab Emirates submits renewables goal to UN
NEWS: Middle Eastern petropower aims for 24% clean energy by 2021, but sets no emissions target in climate pledge
Life or death: G77 demands climate finance guarantee
NEWS: Developing countries are pulling together at interim climate talks in a last push before December’s Paris summit
Apples, apartheid and surgery: The pick of climate analogies
BLOG: Several new phrases made it into the UN vernacular this week as countries clashed at UN climate talks in Bonn
Turkey coal push wrecks ‘inadequate’ climate pledge – analysts
NEWS: Planned dirty power plants will wipe out clean energy gains, says Climate Action Tracker, jeopardising an already weak emissions target
What game theorists predict for a Paris climate deal
NEWS: Academics expect weak language on compensating victims of global warming, but agreement on a long-term global emissions target
Fossil fuel majors accused of ignoring potential demand crash
NEWS: ExxonMobil, Shell and BP’s bullish energy use projections are based on dodgy assumptions, say analysts at Carbon Tracker
7 climate change data tools and what they tell you
BLOG: Interactives from the likes of NASA, WRI and the Financial Times open up hours of fun for the global warming watcher
NGOs criticise closed-door UN climate negotiating sessions
NEWS: Shut out to allow climate diplomats to work on text in private, civil society groups warn secrecy bodes ill for Paris summit
Paris climate deal unlikely to need Senate approval, says US envoy
NEWS: Todd Stern tells Capitol Hill committee new UN climate deal will be crafted under existing treaties, bypassing requirements for lawmaker approval
Japan bucks trend as G7 quits coal
NEWS: Bloc seen phasing out dirty fuel driven by United States, but Japan remains stubborn advocate says report
Indonesia climate pledge hazy on deforestation – analysts
NEWS: Jakarta is fudging future emissions from tree-cutting and stripped peatland amid a coal spree, says Climate Action Tracker
Pathway to $100bn emerging ahead of Paris climate summit
ANALYSIS: Cash demands from developing countries reinserted into text during UN talks in Bonn, as World Bank official hails progress
Climate takes low profile as Xi Jinping visits UK
ANALYSIS: Britain is wooing China’s president for contentious investment in nuclear plants, but the real opportunities are elsewhere
Disney, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s back White House climate drive
NEWS: Leading multinationals sign up to Obama climate pledge as president braces for GOP showdown over plans for COP21 Paris deal
Canada ousts Stephen Harper in boon for climate
NEWS: Justin Trudeau election victory braces Canada for a climate policy refit, but observers hesitant to predict major overhauls
Germany, Ethiopia, Mexico leaders back carbon pricing
NEWS: Six heads of state are endorsing a World Bank campaign to make polluters pay, while Paris climate text ignores the subject
UN climate text swells as G77 flexes muscles in Bonn
ANALYSIS: Developing countries add more than 50 elements to UN’s draft Paris deal, complaining of bias towards richer nations