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Ex-NATO chief: UN ability to tackle climate change has limits
NEWS: Veteran diplomat Javier Solana says real progress will only come at national level, hailing action in China, Uganda, Tuvalu
Into the Dragon’s Den: climate innovation gets competitive
SKETCH: Green start-ups can win big money in the EU-backed Climate-KIC competition. But are the judges after style or substance?
Climate change could slash 8.7% from India’s GDP by 2100
NEWS: The Asian Development Bank warns economic cost of climate change will challenge efforts to lift people out of poverty
Heavy consumption puts planet in overdraft
NEWS: Earth Overshoot Day arrives one day earlier than 2013, marking the date global consumption exceeds production
Warming records fall as July comes in as fourth hottest
NEWS: Last month’s average temperature was 16.44C. That’s 0.64C above the 20th century average
Korolec: Poland is a climate policy success story
NEWS: Poland’s climate change minister says the coal-intensive nation can be a model for developing countries
Tiny Indian village makes final stand against coal giants
NEWS: Vote in Madhya Pradesh village will decide whether ancient forest is cleared for mining project
Australia wind and solar fears rise as Abbott reviews policy
NEWS: Renewable Energy Target could face scrapheap as Canberra takes fresh swipe at climate laws
Five things Wikileaks taught us about UN climate talks
NEWS: As Julian Assange prepares to leave his hideaway, we recall the top Wikileaks releases on climate change
Communicating climate change – without the scary monsters
INTERVIEW: The climate disaster narrative hasn’t worked. Ignorance is bliss. So how do experts plan do wake up the world?
Colombia set to draft new climate law by November
NEWS: Latin American nation hopes tough environmental rules could assist its ambitions to gain OECD status
Project survival: How Pacific island youth are facing down climate change
COMMENT: As they age, Pacific youth could watch their homelands sink to a watery myth. They’re not going down without a fight
Oil majors gambling US$91bn on 20 high-risk projects
NEWS: Tar sands and deep sea oil projects are bad for business as well as the environment, analysts warn
Human impact on glacier melt increasing – study
NEWS: Scientific studies show increasing human impact on glaciers; Antarctic ice melt faster than thought
India’s Modi snubs Ban Ki-moon climate summit
NEWS: Low odds of new prime minister attending key meeting, with claims it clashes with travel schedule
Youth raise climate awareness in flood-hit Balkans
INTERVIEWS: A new generation of post-Communist youth are leading the fight against climate change in the Balkans
Call for finance to top agenda at Ban Ki-moon climate summit
NEWS: Fears over a funding crunch are affecting trust ahead of 2015 Paris deal, says Ecuador’s chief climate negotiator
When young people infiltrate the UN climate machine
ANALYSIS: Not all youths protest. Some have become part of official government delegations. What can they achieve?
Protest, dodgy polling and censorship – UK fracking latest
NEWS: Hundreds expected at Reclaim the Power anti-fracking camp, while industry is accused of “misleading” poll and government redacts shale gas report
Russia faces isolation as climate cold war looms
NEWS: Moscow’s historic links with US, Australia and Ukraine at UN climate talks appear unlikely to last after current crisis