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No ban on coal finance as Green Climate Fund eyes first projects

NEWS: After lengthy talks in Songdo, UN-backed climate finance scheme has loose lending criteria for first funding proposals

NEWS: Oslo commits to 40% carbon cuts by 2030 with an additional goal of carbon neutrality by mid century

NEWS: Leading scientist warns the world’s poor are not safe under internationally agreed warming limit

NEWS: Environmental concerns, lack of infrastructure and foreign investment hold up 14GW of planned power plants

NEWS: National bodies in Senegal and Peru, non-profit social investors Acumen and Pacific island fund SPREP approved to disburse funds

NEWS: Overwhelming majority of lawmakers back plans for country to draft tough new legislation to address greenhouse gas emissions

BLOG: Students at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, are role-playing the Paris talks – can they strike a deal?

NEWS: Climate risks linked to burning coal should make insurers think again before backing industry, says Jeremy Oppenheim

INTERVIEW: UN climate envoy and former president of Ireland says clean energy access for the poorest must be a priority

SKETCH: Fracking, aviation and Brexit spark heated debate at Greener Britain Hustings – which does not win over environmentalists

NEWS: Campaigners claim victory after Ministry of Coal confirms a controversial coal block in sensitive forest will not be auctioned

NEWS: At least 26 US coal companies have gone bankrupt in the last three years, finds Carbon Tracker, in a sign of things to come

NEWS: Major parties set to support plans for law to curb greenhouse gas emissions, despite huge influence of oil and gas sector

NEWS: Delhi is “not in the habit” of taking pressure warns Prakash Javadekar, but says country will play its part in Paris

NEWS: Ethiopia, US and Mexico among countries pledging action at Bonn meeting to cut carbon emissions and create jobs

ANALYSIS: With clock ticking for Fund to start delivering cash, board meets in Korea to discuss how it will leverage billions in private sector funds

NEWS: Sea surface temperatures warmer than average across parts of Pacific and Atlantic in 2014, says UN weather agency

NEWS: Mary Robinson says funds should consider the impact of their fossil fuel investments on communities vulnerable to climate change

NEWS: Common ground growing between two superpowers, Todd Stern tells reporters after two-day meeting in Beijing

NEWS: Warming temperatures across North Pole credited with falling ice levels, months before UN primed to deliver climate pact in Paris