Latest climate change news
Yeb Sano: Why I’m leaving diplomacy to fight climate change
COMMENT: Former chief Philippines climate negotiator announces he is stepping down to work on sustainable future with faith groups around world
Climate change will increase flow of migrants to Europe
COMMENT: Grim death toll will get worse unless coordinated action is taken to tackle climate change, conflicts and poverty
Sweden takes Canada to task over tar sands pollution
NEWS: Country probed how it will curb climbing CO2 emissions from oil and gas sector as tar sands crude pumping set to double
Marshall Islands offer plan to green vast shipping fleet
NEWS: Foreign minister says UN leadership needed to ensure all flagged carriers adopt tougher carbon cutting regulations
Obama: Climate change can no longer be denied or ignored
VIDEO: US president says science on climate is clear in 2015 Earth Day address, calls for Congress support for clean energy and emission cutting policies
UK election: Labour and Liberal Democrats offer real climate ambition
COMMENT: The UK’s leading left-wing party has sound plans for the climate, argues Stephen Tindale, but should reject airport expansion
US envoy Stern urges Canada to deliver UN climate pledge
NEWS: Be more like Mexico, John Kerry’s lead diplomat tells North American neighbour as it errs in posting pollution-reduction targets
Why are UK politicians so poor at explaining climate risk?
ANALYSIS: Offered an hour on the BBC to explain why global warming should matter to voters, Britain’s current and wannabe lawmakers failed miserably
London academics rise in support of divestment campaign
NEWS: Staff at SOAS and UCL write to governing bodies urging them to ditch nearly £20 million in oil, gas and coal holdings
How three coastal cities are rising to the climate challenge
BLOG: From Rotterdam in the Netherlands to Tarakan in Indonesia, coastal cities must deal with rising sea levels and extreme weather threats
UN chief to address Vatican climate change summit
NEWS: Meeting of top Catholic officials, scientists and economists to lay foundations for upcoming Papal Encyclical on environment in June
Australia’s climate plans probed by UN partners
NEWS: World’s biggest emitters call out inadequate pollution-cutting targets as nations vet power of pledges to rein in global warming
World Bank cash for fossil fuels: The worst kind of hypocrisy
COMMENT: Increasing support for coal and other climate polluting energy sources undermines the World Bank’s credibility on climate change
India considers twin-track climate plans towards UN deal
ANALYSIS: Insiders hint radical carbon cuts unlikely, with Delhi depending on global support to clean energy supply
Ocean acidification triggered mass extinctions 252 million years ago
NEWS: The biggest extinction ever known on Earth resulted from oceans turned acid by CO2, the main gas driving human-caused climate change today
Polar bears hit by twin threats of pollution and climate change
NEWS: Plastic waste, toxic pollutants and climate adding pressures on polar bears in Arctic say researchers
UN: Gold, timber and ivory plunder stokes Congo conflict
NEWS: Billion-dollar smuggling trade propping up rebel groups in war-torn east of vast African country, reveals report
India hostility to HFC phase-out thaws, submits plans to UN
NEWS: Analysts hail historic shift in tone as Modi government accepts need to radically cut use of “super greenhouse gases”
Climate deals make 2015 ‘biggest year since 1945’, says UN envoy
NEWS: Busy schedule to update Millennium Development Goals and finalise global CO2 pact make 2015 most important of post-war period, says Mary Robinson
Fracking: what is the British government trying to hide?
COMMENT: Decisions over the onshore drilling for gas and oil need to be taken with all the facts at our disposal, not pushed through Parliament in a rush