Draft documents suggest countries will agree to further ban on large-scale climate techno-fixes, warning risks of damage to biodiversity outweigh potential benefits
UN biodiversity chief tells Climate Home protecting and restoring ecosystems is the best way to protect the world from dangerous levels of global warming
Bolivia has declared a state of emergency as climate impacts shrink glaciers and leave cities without water
The greenhouse effect has prompted plants to consume more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere − but not enough to prevent global warming
Text from US secretary of state’s address to UN talks in Marrakech, Morocco, signalling end of an era of Washington’s climate leadership
Fossil fuel companies including Rio Tinto, Glencore and BHP Billiton defend their records from Philippines probe
Global average CO2 concentrations breached symbolic milestone of 400ppm for the first time in 2015, while temperatures soared
Forests and grasslands would store more carbon if communities’ rights were protected, according to research from the leading climate economist
The national regulator has asked BP to provide further information on their environmental plans to drill two exploration wells in the Bight
Conservatives may be inclined to trust the military, but decades of polarised debate make them sceptical of global warming threats
The UN climate regime still lacks an official definition of loss and damage and funding streams remain limited – which means it’s time to get innovative
Household rubbish, land clearance for agriculture and a planned coal power plant in Lamu are putting pressure on vital coastal ecosystems
US president sets out vision for global cooperation in New York, as double threshold for bring the Paris Agreement into force edges closer
France’s environment minister urges members of the International Maritime Organization to support climate goals
The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions
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Survey finds that 69% of visitors to the world’s largest coral reef system are motivated by the fear that it might disappear
Scientists to explore emission pathways that could lead to lower levels of global warming with IPCC study due in 2018
Warning that humans may already have emitted enough carbon dioxide to undermine the 1.5°C temperature rise threshold agreed by 195 nations last December
Science underpinning the global treaty aiming to stop average temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels needs more research