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Climate bill racks up as poor nations submit Paris pledges
ANALYSIS: Magnitude of poor countries’ billion-dollar green investment need emerges through climate pledges submitted to the UN
Terrifying math: How Carbon Tracker changed the climate debate
ANALYSIS: For decades fossil fuels were seen as a safe bet – until one simple study by a team of fund managers in 2011
IMF: Saudi Arabia should rely less on oil
NEWS: Fossil fuel giant must continue efforts to diversify economy away from oil, gas, International Monetary Fund says
Hillary Clinton opposes Arctic oil as Shell starts drilling
NEWS: US presidential candidate tweet sets her apart from Barack Obama stance slammed as “hypocritical” by campaigners
Muslim leaders tell petropowers to lead on climate change
NEWS: Islamic declaration on climate change calls on rich and oil producing states to lead according to religious principles
Norway fund divests from Asian firms over deforestation
NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations
Trees at risk in warming Andes upland forests
NEWS: Many plant species cannot migrate uphill fast enough to escape rising temperatures, scientists have found
Climate vulnerable Philippines plans huge bet on coal
NEWS: Extreme weather events linked to climate change represent a huge risk for Manila, but green groups say the government is embracing dirty energy
Germany coal protest in pictures
NEWS: Organisers say 1,000 activists got into RWE’s opencast lignite mine in Rhineland, Germany on Saturday and halted diggers
Coal giant Glencore set for ‘calamitous’ profit slump
CRIB NOTES AUG 17-21: Commodities rout accelerates, OPEC poised to boost oil supply, UK slashes GHG emissions
IPCC chair election: 5 candidates, 8 weeks to go
ANALYSIS: Who will take the most prestigious climate science job in the world? RTCC investigates
8-year-old takes US government to court over climate change
NEWS: Levi Draheim joins 20 other youth activists in unusual legal challenge to US president Barack Obama
Weekly wrap: Don’t judge Paris on 2C climate target, Aus INDC hammered
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EU ex-climate chief Hedegaard backs fossil fuel divestment
NEWS: Shifting funds out of coal, oil and gas could make “a very important contribution” to Paris deal, says Connie Hedegaard
Climate alarm bells are ringing, says Arctic-bound Obama
NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting for global climate deal talks; critics say he can lead by stopping Shell drilling for oil
Activists to halt diggers at RWE coalfields in Germany
NEWS: Organisers expect a thousand people from across Europe to target opencast lignite mine, a major source of emissions
What do young people want from a Paris climate deal?
BLOG: Young people and future generations will be hit hardest by climate change, so what do they need out of a UN pact?
Chinese solar panel makers suffer amid stock market turmoil
NEWS: Solar manufacturing giants are struggling on slim profit margins, hefty debts and excess production capacity
Kiribati president calls for moratorium on coal mines
NEWS: Anote Tong urges aggressive push to stop carbon emissions from coal use and save his low-lying islands from rising seas
APP touts Indonesia peat project as climate exemplar
NEWS: Forestry giant is retiring 7,000 hectares of plantations to conserve carbon-rich peat, a major source of emissions