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Paris dilemma: How do we judge success of 2015 climate summit?
COMMENT: Veteran climate talks observer Saleemul Huq offers his thoughts on what an ambitious climate deal looks like
How a UN climate deal can help prevent refugee crises
COMMENT: As Syrian refugees flock to Europe, driven in part by drought, countries must plan for global warming-linked losses
UN climate chief expects national plans to cover up to 80% of emissions before Paris
INTERVIEW: Christiana Figueres tells RTCC Brazil and India will soon come on board with climate plans, but admits more ambition required
US, EU considering loss and damage options for Paris deal
NEWS: Major developed economies exploring compromise options on contentious issue of loss and damage at negotiations in Bonn
Paris climate agreement can’t leave behind the most vulnerable
COMMENT: If politics of pollution continue to trump rights of those most exposed to climate change, UN summit could be explosive
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
How should we channel future climate adaptation funding?
COMMENT: Finance needs to flow to the most vulnerable. To to this we need to understand who’s at risk and where the money should go
Mr President, Africa needs your climate leadership in Paris
COMMENT: On eve of Kenya visit, head of Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance asks US president to boost green funds for his continent
Who’s who in the world of climate change diplomacy?
NEWS: July meeting of the Major Economies Forum offers an insight into influential figures guiding UN climate talks
Five reasons the UK centre-right should back a UN climate pact
COMMENT: Key trade partners are likely to be impacted by global warming: it’s a national interest to cut emissions argues Ben Caldecott
Bullish Marshall Islands aim high with UN climate plan
NEWS: President says pledge won’t need a “crystal ball” to work out, unlike submissions from South Korea and China
Fossil fuels are the ‘enemy’, OECD chief tells Addis finance meet
NEWS: Question of how best to fund climate change action dominates UN financing for development summit
What does the Pope’s encyclical mean for the climate fight?
COMMENT: Pope Francis’ unequivocal call to arms will reverberate globally in acting on climate change says IIED’s Camilla Toulmin
Funds lacking to help poor tackle climate impacts, says World Bank
NEWS: Not enough cash is flowing to boost resilience in the face of sea level rise and weather extremes, development banks warn
Chinese premier Li commits to 2030 CO2 peaking goal
NEWS: Government set to maintain plans to slash emissions and boost clean energy use in UN pledge due on June 17
9 things we learned at the UN climate talks in Bonn
BLOG: Climate talks are like pregnancy, Ethiopia is more climate-forward than Australia and God is on the climate’s side
Governments silenced over UN climate change target
BLOG: Diplomats in Bonn have pushed back on an initiative to assess whether current levels of carbon cuts will slow risky warming
France ready to step in if climate talks stall, says Tubiana
NEWS: Chief French climate diplomat says hosts of COP21 will take lead if countries fail to deliver new text by August
Will a Paris climate change pact have any teeth?
ANALYSIS: What requirements will a proposed 2015 global warming deal place on countries? It’s a question exercising top legal minds
Rethink 2C climate goal, urge world’s most vulnerable
NEWS: Twenty nations menaced by rising sea levels and severe droughts attack “inadequate” temperature target