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UN climate talks collapse amid acrimony in Bonn
Session dealing with implementation fails to resolve agenda dispute and will close on Friday without having begun its work
Russian climate negotiator brands UNFCCC rules row “nonsense”
Exclusive: Oleg Shamanov tells Olga Dobridova he should not be blamed for holding up UN talks in Bonn, saying it is vital decision making rules are clarified
IEA: World heading for 3.6°C of warming
New report recommends four energy policies that could keep world within the 2°C limit recommended by scientists
EU must switch flood tactics to cope in climate change era
Current focus on flood defence instead of prevention is inadequate according to flood resilience expert
Why a radical legal landscape is needed to ensure climate justice
Joy Hyvarinen from FIELD asks if the concept of ‘transitional justice’ should be applied to global climate negotiations
UN climate envoys urged to accelerate loss and damage planning
Controversial compensation mechanism could be vital as devastating effects of climate related weather events become clear
83 developing states call for clear climate finance & emission pledges
Alliance of Small Island States and Least Developed Countries groups ay UN talks in Bonn over the next two weeks must focus on short-term emission reductions
Delivery central to success of UN climate talks – Figueres
Domestic action will drive negotiations says UN climate chief as countries meet to discuss 2015 emissions deal
UNICEF: Children bear brunt of climate health impacts
Children are both more exposed to the impacts of climate change and less able to cope with them, writes UNICEF’s Jazmin Burgess
Understanding local weather key to coping with climate change
Leading climate scientist highlights the importance of regional data in understanding and reacting to the effects of global climate change
Health impacts will hit climate migrants even harder
Climate change is forcing displacement and migration now says Jonny Elliot, and the health impacts will make the situation worse
Comment: Health overlooked in our response to climate change
Protecting health and welfare is a central tenet of the UN climate change convention but is largely absent from the debate, says Isobel Braithwaite
Climate change threatens health in the new megacities
With half the world now living in cities, a focus on the climate impacts on health in urban environments could save lives, writes Shuo Zhang of Healthy Planet UK
Indian MP: UK should ditch fossil fuel subsidies
Kalikesh Singh Deo praises the country’s climate legislation but says low targets and fossil fuel subsidies blot its record
Fish migration charts climate change in the oceans
Canadian scientists track movement in fish stocks to uncover ocean temperature rises of 0.19°C every ten years
Time to adapt to climate change, say world’s biggest cities
C40 group says it’s time to balance cutting emissions with preparing for the consequences of a warming world
EU fast start finance claims ‘misleading’ say observers
Climate finance experts tell RTCC European Union claims it has fully funded FSF commitments between 2010-2012 are inaccurate
USA suffers severe climate induced migration
31.8m people displaced by floods, storms and droughts in 2012, as more people lost their homes in the USA than Bangladesh
Is it time to abandon the 2 degree warming target?
Avoiding two degrees of warming is a key principle of the UN climate talks. But who decides how much warming is too much?
Climate finance: the elephant that’s not even in the room
Lack of progress on climate finance flows could fatally undermine attempts to broker a global deal in 2015