Latest climate change news
How El Nino is delaying your flight and upping emissions
NEWS: Flying west? A warmer Pacific is speeding up air currents, burning $3bn a year in extra fuel and CO2, study finds
8 lessons from a climate change tour of the US
From Washington to Hawaii: It’s no use waiting for consensus, cowboys don’t get it and change isn’t easy, even in paradise
Bird flu offers lesson in averting climate calamity, says UK envoy
NEWS: 2005 pandemic made leaders consider all scenarios. The same must apply for global warming, argues Sir David King
What could a legally binding UN climate deal look like?
ANALYSIS: Countries agreed to target a ‘legally binding’ climate pact in 2011, but four years later it’s still not clear how it will work
Oxfam chief calls on BRICS to take development finance lead
NEWS: Winnie Byanyima warns of vacuum left by European Union backing away from poverty reduction leadership role
Too few scientists track loss of Himalayan glaciers
NEWS: Millions rely on meltwater from Asia’s water towers, but lack of expertise and manpower hampers the study of climate impacts
BRICS’ leaders back global climate change pact
CRIB NOTES JULY 13-17: Ufa ends with Paris pledge, Addis set for finance meet, Australia primed to deliver INDC
Financing for Development: What to expect from UN Addis Ababa summit
NEWS: Success of global climate pact and new development goals hangs on four-day finance meet in Ethiopia
‘Creative accounting’ means New Zealand emissions could rise – analysts
NEWS: Wellington’s climate pledge is ‘inadequate’ to hold global temperature rise to 2C, says Climate Action Tracker
How do scientists rate the prospect of a global climate deal?
ANALYSIS: 2,000 of science’s best minds mingled this week in the last meeting of its size before December’s crunch Paris summit
Offshore wind and rooftop solar have strong Q2
NEWS: Investors plugged US$53 billion into renewables last quarter, says Bloomberg, down 28% on the same period in 2014
Green fund controversy, IPCC race and deep denial
WEEKLY WRAP: All you need to know from the last seven days of international climate change and energy politics
Tuvalu PM warns against suing oil majors for climate damage
NEWS: Litigation mooted by neighbour Vanuatu undermines UN climate deal chances, leader of low-lying Pacific island says
‘Green economy’ route out of financial slump – Stiglitz
NEWS: Liberal economist and austerity critic says pricing pollution part of package to enhance growth
New Zealand CAN do more to cut emissions – here’s how
COMMENT: Government claims the country can do little more to green its electricity sector are not true, say leading academics
Climate change is killing off bumblebees – study
NEWS: Critical pollinators of natural world are becoming less common as warmer temperatures squeeze their territory
How to talk about uncertainty in climate science
COMMENT: As climate scientists meet in Paris this week, COIN has top tips for expressing the uncertain without pandering to sceptics
BRICS bank’s first project should be green – Modi
NEWS: India PM calls for emerging economy fund to back clean energy at bloc’s seventh summit in Russia
Outsider enters race to head UN climate science panel
NEWS: Energy economist Nebojsa Nakicenovic is the fifth candidate nominated to replace Rajendra Pachauri at the top of the IPCC
Vietnam mulls climate pledge to UN pact
NEWS: Southeast Asian country eyes up to 25% cut in carbon emissions by 2030, depending on international cash