Climate Change News

Forget climate pledges for Paris – let’s talk deep decarbonisation

ANALYSIS: With power stations and urban infrastructure locking in emissions for decades, countries need a long term vision

NEWS: Environment chiefs told to work hard to secure global goals in Vatican meet days before bloc finalises Paris strategy

NEWS: Holidaymakers could desert north-African state as temperatures jump and rising sea-levels eat away seafront hotels

NEWS: Investors call on government to support renewables sector, which faces cash crisis as stock market woes intensify

BLOG: Olga Dobrovidova investigates the social and economic impacts of thawing permafrost in Russia’s remote Arctic towns

NEWS: Apollo project will clamour at UN summit for US$15 billion in renewable investment a year this decade to halt climate change

NEWS: British cuts to clean energy support have baffled financiers, says consultancy EY, while Santiago has a winning strategy

NEWS: Boeing, BMW, and EDF among 45 major companies whose green claims and pro-fossil fuel lobby group links don’t add up

NEWS: What will countries agree to at this December’s critical UN summit? Researchers are mapping the likely outcome

NEWS: Brussels has yet to account for ‘staggering’ 6 billion tonnes of carbon cuts in post-2020 target, CAN-Europe warns

NEWS: World’s top carbon polluters to sign declaration binding cities and states to a raft of green policies like carbon cuts

NEWS: Pathways to ensure world avoids 2C of warming should be outlined as part of a 2015 UN deal, says top French diplomat

NEWS: Great oceanic “lung” is again breathing in lots of CO2 from the atmosphere but scientists can’t say why or whether it will last

NEWS: Mooted target to cut CO2 15% by 2030 is based on existing infrastructure projects and doesn’t raise ambition, say experts

NEWS: After a dramatic vote, leadership change is expected to bring more progressive stance on climate and carbon pricing

NEWS: A state of emergency has been declared in two regions as long-running drought and heatwave combine to spark blazes

CRIB NOTES SEPT 14-18: Brussels to outline COP21 plans, General Assembly gathers in NYC, WWF releases global oceans study

NEWS: Exploiting global reserves would melt all Antarctica and jack up sea levels by 50m. Though it would take 10,000 years

NEWS: Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum criticises Peter Dutton for “insensitive” remarks, in week of tension on climate

NEWS: Country to scrap subsidies for power plants sold to developing countries as it prepares to host UN climate change summit