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WHO calls for clean energy to tackle air pollution
NEWS: UN health body adopts “landmark resolution” to tackle toxic particles from sources like coal plants and diesel engines
Can carbon pricing be a climate saviour?
ANALYSIS: Businesses and top officials in Barcelona for the Carbon Expo support moves to make polluters pay, but don’t expect miracles
Stop demonising oil and gas companies, says UN climate chief
NEWS: Christiana Figueres tells business leaders efforts by fossil fuel companies to green their operations should be welcomed
Climate change threat demands reform to financial system – UNEP
NEWS: ‘Stress tests’ for international finance from rising climate impacts, as UN report calls for banking cultural shift
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
Fossil fuel subsidies to hit $5.3 trillion in 2015, says IMF study
NEWS: Governments could cut 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions at a stroke if they stopped subsidising oil, gas and coal
India: No place for dissent in world’s biggest democracy
ANALYSIS: Is Greenpeace crackdown a plan of Modi government to stifle alternative voices under the cover of national interest?
UN shipping body shelves emissions target
NEWS: A Marshall Islands plea for climate action fell on deaf ears at IMO, leaving CO2 to rise unchecked
G7 ministers hail agreement on climate goals ahead of June summit
NEWS: Energy chiefs say group of industrialised countries are in consensus over urgency of “deep” greenhouse gas cuts
Australia needs radical CO2 cuts to match US, EU
NEWS: Mind the gap: experts show scale of cuts needed to match pollution reduction targets of major world emitters
Cities central to climate and sustainable development – World Urban Campaign
INTERVIEW: Empowering mayors, village chiefs and communities to promote care for the environment is central to climate challenge
Meet Reverend Billy, preacher of the climate apocalypse
INTERVIEW: With his Broadway-infused Stop Shopping Choir and congregation of thousands, Billy Talen takes the drama of global warming to the streets
Modi: India can offer “natural leadership” on climate change
NEWS: PM offers grand vision of green India but no clues on country’s possible contribution to global climate pact
Mangoes to maggots: 7 forest foods that hold ‘trump card’ to hunger
NEWS: In the face of climate change and peak farmland, tree foods offer “hidden harvest” for global hungry, report says
Could green bonds offer a home for capital fleeing fossil fuels?
BLOG: Bonds financed German reunification and Japan’s nuclear fleet – why not the low carbon transition?
Japan accused of ‘sleight of hand’ in climate targets
NEWS: Tokyo’s proposal to use 2013 baseline makes 26% emissions cut by 2030 look more ambitious than it is, say analysts, as coal makes a comeback
Japan’s weak climate plans “grave concern” says John Prescott
NEWS: Former UK climate envoy appeals to Japanese premier Shinzo Abe to change course and offer tough emissions goal for Paris
G20 to assess ‘carbon bubble’ threat – media reports
NEWS: United States, China, India, Russia, Australia, and Saudi Arabia to probe risks of stranded assets ahead of UN climate pact
European air pollution has deadly trillion-dollar price tag – WHO
NEWS: Related deaths and diseases cost European economies $1.6 trillion a year, World Health Organization finds, calling on leaders to enact curbs
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