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Africa flying blind as continent tips into climate crisis
With too little data to inform local climate science, African countries lack a fundamental tool to plan long term adaptation strategies
AS IT HAPPENED: UN climate talks reaction as Trump wins US presidency
Rolling updates from the COP22 summit in Marrakech. All times GMT
It’s official: the Paris climate deal is now international law
Diplomatic triumph but the science stinks: governments must regularly update their contributions towards efforts to hold global warming “well below 2C”
China cuts pollution at home, grows coal abroad
China cuts coal at home but state owned companies and banks drive new coal expansion overseas, despite promises of green growth for developing countries
US military issues climate security warning
Senior military figures in the US warn of national and international security threats posed by the impacts of climate change
Weekly wrap: Aviation, HFCs and Paris climate deals win support at UN
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Trump threat looms over New York climate week
Amid bullish clean energy predictions and packed climate policy events, fears are growing over the impacts of a potential Donald Trump presidency
Indonesia’s 2015 fires killed 100,000 people, study estimates
Harvard and Columbia University study finds death from smoke exposure “on a massive scale” in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Segolene Royal calls for UN action on shipping emissions
France’s environment minister urges members of the International Maritime Organization to support climate goals
Paris climate agreement set to become law this year
Fifty-seven countries accounting for 59.88% of global emissions have now indicated they will sign agreement before end of 2016
János Áder: Hungary’s unlikely climate change leader
Janos Ader has taken a hawkish stance on global warming in his time as president, but change at home has proved harder to deliver
Will sceptics Boris and Priti become UK climate champions?
Priti Patel and Boris Johnson are now the international face of Britain’s climate ambitions: will this pair of cynics be won over by the green economy?
Climate-linked European heatwave killed over 500
Hundreds of west Europeans were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report
Christiana Figueres places ‘hope’ at centre of UN pitch
Buoyed from the success of the Paris climate agreement, Costa Rican diplomat aims for New York top job
Green Climate Fund to target ‘high risk’ investments
Projects in Africa and Asia set to benefit as GCF sets out stall to be top clean energy and resilience lender to developing countries
US, Canada, Mexico agree climate partnership
The “three amigos” set targets to get half of electricity from clean sources and cut methane emissions 40-45% by 2025
UK leadership contender Boris Johnson ‘not a climate denier’
Conservative colleague Lord Barker insists former London mayor would not unpick environmental legislation if elected leader
The EU referendum debate shows truth still matters
In climate change circles as for the Brexit battle, misinformation must be challenged
Crib notes: Obama, Modi primed for climate and nuclear talks
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Russia moots change to 2030 emissions target
Kremlin vows to have documents for Paris Agreement ratification ready by October, suggests it could ratchet up emissions goal widely regarded as weak