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Crib notes: UN meets in Vienna to debate HFC slashing deal
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Climate change is raising peat fire risk – study
Drying bogs are increasingly flammable, researchers warn, fuelling blazes from Fort McMurray in Canada to southeast Asia
Weekly wrap: Goodbye 400ppm, hello cheap oil challenge
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How women could benefit from fuel subsidy reform
Subsidies often don’t help women much at all and reforms provide an opportunity to better target support
Crude politics: Reforming Nigeria’s oil sector
A new round of reforms will address fraud, corruption and cronyism in the oil import sector, but they require careful handling by central government
World ‘beyond return’ of historic carbon dioxide milestone
Record surge in CO2 through 2015 and 2016 saw atmospheric concentrations rise fast than 2 parts per million average to well above 400ppm
G7 host Japan mocks UN climate deal with coal binge, say greens
Report hails US plans to close 100GW of coal power, contrasting it with Tokyo’s policy to support polluting fossil fuel domestically and abroad
World Bank: Asia coal power plant plans are ‘disaster for climate’
Experts say proposed power plants in India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia would blow Paris climate deal if they move ahead, reports the Guardian
Land rights crucial to save tropical forests – UNDP
Researchers highlight importance of carbon-sucking forests alongside New York climate deal signing ceremony
Climate activists plan ‘global wave’ of protests in May
Campaign group 350 announces series of protests on every continent to signal fears over weak climate policies
Renminbi power: Will China’s wallet shape the planet?
China has big financial firepower. It must channel it towards low carbon through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to lead from the front on climate
Peabody’s climate-denying crash is a warning to investors
As the US coal giant goes bankrupt, shareholders should beware of fossil fuel companies predicting a rosy future
IHS Energy predicts coal price spike by 2020
NEWS: Analysis firm sees brighter future for mining companies, but climate researchers disagree
For Myanmar, temptation of cheap coal ‘hard to ignore’
NEWS: Big expansion of coal power on track as Aung San Suu Kyi forms first civilian-led government in over 50 years
UN’s pitch for global aviation deal lands in Netherlands
Crib Notes 4-8 April: ICAO primed for EU meet, World Bank to release new climate plan, G20 sherpas gather in China
UN weather agency pivots to developing countries in warmer era
INTERVIEW: Better forecasting tools to aid farmers and health planners emerging priority, says head of World Meteorological Organization
Fears of an Asian coal surge are overblown – study
NEWS: Dirty power plants planned in China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia are unlikely to all be built, says think tank ECIU
2016 on course to be hottest on record, says US climate agency
NEWS: Scientists say global warming is bordering on the ‘astronomical’ as temperatures break new ground driven by a rampant El Nino, says NOAA
Tanzania’s forests at risk as foreign aid dries up
NEWS: Norway’s bankrolling of REDD+ scheme has ended, leaving trees under threat from logging, mining and farmland expansion, warn NGOs
JP Morgan: Coal investments on par with child labour
NEWS: Bank says it will stop funding new coal mines or plants in the 30 OECD nations, but could still back projects in developing world