Latest climate change news
EU chief forced to remix top jobs as MEPs flex their muscles
NEWS: Jean-Claude Juncker must reconsider his choices – and the two candidates for lead EU roles on energy and climate look vulnerable
Leading Australian pension fund ditches coal holdings
NEWS: LGS chief executive cites increased risks of fossil fuel assets as reason for divestment
UK urges Europe’s leaders to back ambitious climate targets
NEWS: Climate secretary Ed Davey stresses 40% cuts are at lower end of ambition as 2015 UN deal in Paris looms
EU energy plans in limbo as MEPs grill proposed commissioner
NEWS: Former Slovenian prime minister Alenka Bratusek branded “vague and evasive” in EU Parliament interrogation
India refusal to cut CO2 emissions is “wrong” says ex minister
NEWS: Maintaining division between rich and poor nations at UN climate talks is relic of an old world, says Jairam Ramesh
UN: Expand marine protection zones to cope with climate threat
NEWS: Warming waters and acidification are steadily degrading the planet’s oceans, says new study
China emissions rising on high-carbon economic growth
NEWS: Economic success story has been driven by investment in high carbon sectors such as cement and steel, find researchers
September’s climate thermometer: who’s hot, and who’s not?
NEWS: Who has shown some cool, green leadership this September… And who is heating up the planet?
Yeb Sano sets off on 1000km Philippines climate march
NEWS: Diplomat aims to “empower” communities during walk through areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda in 2013
Climate consensus: scientists and sceptics suspend hostilities
NEWS: Twitter adversaries meet over dinner to discuss the climate debate, and why everyone hates each other so much
Backtracking from 2C goal abandons island states to the waves
ANALYSIS: Negotiators are already distancing themselves from the 2C goal, but it is too important to throw away
Merkel advisor slams Australia’s coal-friendly energy plan
NEWS: Canberra’s climate approach branded “weak” and “risk” by influential German scientist
Chinese solar drives clean energy investment bounce
NEWS: After three strong quarters for investment in clean energy sources, 2014 is on track to recover from a two-year dip
EU top climate job in doubt as greens round on Canete
NEWS: Green and centre-left MEPs are unconvinced by candidate Miguel Arias Cañete’s commitment to tackling climate change
UN climate change talks: 2C or not 2C?
COMMENT: Ditching the 2C goal is like doctors dithering over a critically ill patient, say Climate Analytics
Berlin to host UN climate finance summit in November
NEWS: Green Climate Fund plans “resource mobilisation” meeting in German capital to hit US$10 billion target for 2014
WHO should declare climate change a “health emergency”
NEWS: The British Medical Journal says Ebola deaths will “pale into insignificance” compared to mayhem caused by global warming
Candidate for top EU climate job defends oil links
NEWS: Miguel Arias Canete declared his support for EU climate change goals, under fierce questioning from MEPs
Greenland ice melt likely to accelerate say scientists
NEWS: Vast ice sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, say scientists
UK PM Cameron skims over climate in key speech
NEWS: UK Conservative leader devotes one line in hour-long speech to climate change as he sets out election priorities