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Low carbon experts mull iconic buildings for green makeovers
ANALYSIS: Notre Dame or a Durban township? Sustainability advocates are divided on the best way to push the energy efficiency message
El Nino likely to ensure 2015 breaks warming records
ANALYSIS: Rising temperatures linked to phenomenon could add weight to calls for tough new climate deal in Paris this year
The Dirty Dozen: the fossil fuel industry’s polluting league table
NEWS: Study shows dirtiest publicly-traded energy companies pump out more emissions a year than the US, Japan and Russia combined
Climate change will create “ripe” regions for terrorists
NEWS: White House report stresses national security dangers posed if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise
As it happened: Paris business and climate summit, day 1
Latest news, commentary and analysis as business leaders meet in French capital to discuss plans to address climate change
Why Canada’s provinces are fighting the Feds on climate
ANALYSIS: Leftwingers’ shock victory in oil-rich Alberta signals energy sector shake-up as anticipated carbon taxes defy PM Harper
Climate tracker: What’s happened to pledges for Paris summit?
ANALYSIS: National climate strategies are the building blocks of any UN emissions pact, and time is running out for governments to deliver
Artificial trees and nanotechnology: climate saviours?
NEWS: US scientists are making progress on radical methods to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and neutralise emissions
8 things Earth Day ever did for the environment
BLOG: The first eco-protest to go viral turns 45 today. We look back at the environmental movement’s greatest achievements
Investors urge US regulator to force action on climate risk
NEWS: Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Canadian Natural Resources are failing to consider threat to their business, warn investors worth US$2trn
Figueres: National climate plans = “investment prospectuses”
NEWS: UN climate chief urges businesses to look for opportunities in countries’ contributions to a global climate deal
BP shareholders to vote on climate risk disclosure
NEWS: Oil major backs proposal to reveal threat climate action poses to its business plan, for approval at AGM on Thursday
Canadian glaciers could start to disappear by 2040 – scientists
NEWS: Climate change could cause many glaciers in western Canada to start to disappear by mid century, affecting people and places that depend on their water
US carbon pollution set for 2015 drop as coal plants close
NEWS: Analysts say decline of coal and rise of wind and solar will lead to significant fall in emissions this year
Shrinking Antarctic ice shelf raises sea level concerns
NEWS: Evidence of rapid reduction of West Antarctica’s shelf ice could have serious implications for global sea levels in a warming world
Mexico releases pledge for 2015 UN climate change pact
NEWS: Pena Nieto’s government joins EU, Norway and Switzerland in releasing contribution ahead of March 31 deadline
Wind ‘can meet’ a third of US power demand by 2050
NEWS: Renewable source could supply 10% of electricity by 2020 and 20% by 2030 with policy stability, says energy department
Climate change a likely factor in Syria civil war
NEWS: Researchers link climate to drought that affected Syria nearly a decade ago − and helped spark country’s conflict
Scientists confirm ‘critical link’ between CO2 emissions and warming
NEWS: High-precision field instruments in the US have provided the first real-time “action shots” of the increasing impact of CO2
Ocean acidification attack on algae damaging marine ecosystems
NEWS: Development of group of alga may be stunted as oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, with widespread effects for marine life, say scientists