Obama’s climate legacy: can it survive President Trump?
In the third of our Obama years trilogy, we ask whether the climate gains of the past eight years can last as the Donald takes power
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Obama’s climate legacy: China, India and the Paris pact
In the second of a three-part series, we look at how President Obama galvanised international action on climate change
Executive disorder: Trump’s climate policies bid goodbye to reality
Despite the rhetoric, US president Donald Trump’s irrational climate order will fail to benefit the miners he has championed
Obama’s climate legacy: a battle of attrition at home
In the first of a three-part series, Climate Home looks at Barack Obama’s domestic record on one of his top priority issues
Reader survey: Obama’s greatest climate impact was in China
Email subscribers and twitter followers were most positive about President Obama’s impact on the world stage
Obama: ‘I didn’t kill coal, gas did’
Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of waging a “war on coal”, but the current president says it was “market forces”
Obama heads to Arctic to hammer climate message
NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks
RGGI: proof carbon trading can work in the USA?
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative celebrates fifth birthday and eyes further expansion across the country
Obama unlikely to make Keystone decision until 2014
Morning summary: Experts say that the State Department is likely to delay on a Keystone XL Pipeline decision until next year
Nordic countries join Obama in shunning dirty energy
President Barak Obama met with the Swedish king and queen to agree a move to low carbon technology
Bloomberg tells New York residents to “recycle everything”
Mayor wants to double the recycling rate to 30% by 2017 to divert 50,000 tons of plastic waste from reaching landfills
Congress tells NASA to prioritise Mars exploration over climate change
US lawmakers back plans for deep space exploration but slash investment in agency’s climate research programmes
What does a Republican-friendly carbon tax look like?
Obama’s climate plans avoid confrontation with Republicans but giving them what they want good be the key to an effective carbon tax
Obama launches $7bn African energy plan
Scheme will support US companies to enter market with goal of doubling energy access in sub-Saharan Africa
Obama plan could define 2015 UN climate deal
Experts say US carbon cutting plans may indicate how far it will be willing to go in its commitment under the new global climate treaty
Ernest Moniz: coal will play major role in US energy future
Morning Briefing: Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said the president embraced traditional energy sources as well as renewables
Obama promises to ‘cut carbon pollution’ in new Climate Action Plan
Details of US climate plan revealed with emissions from both new and existing power stations targeted and plans for enough renewables to power 6 million homes
Obama climate plan set for court challenge
Morning summary: Obama could face legal challenges putting the fate of his climate policy in the hands of the courts.
Obama set to reveal new climate change plans on Tuesday
Renewables and R&D set for boost in new US clean energy proposals, with coal power plants facing tough emission restrictions
Obama set to roll out new US emission regulations
At landmark speech in Berlin US President says a “grim alternative” awaits the world if rising greenhouse gas emissions are not addressed
WWF: 3% of carbon cuts could save US business $190 billion
Carbon Disclosure Project and WWF say they can make carbon cutting attractive to the corporate world
Obama’s climate credentials face test at UN talks in Bonn
US President talks big, but will his team demonstrate commitment to multilateral process at next round of negotiations?
China, EU, USA & India outline global climate deal positions
As governments prepare to meet in Bonn to discuss a proposed 2015 climate treaty, RTCC looks at the opening positions of the USA, EU, China and India
Obama to establish $2bn clean energy fund
Revenue from oil and gas licences to be diverted to research on more efficient vehicles and fuels as Obama takes first solid steps on climate change since election
Hedegaard hails Obama commitment to climate change
EU Climate Commissioner delighted that ‘science’ to form backbone of US policy on global warming
UK offshore wind output increases by 54%
Climate Live: The latest climate change headlines curated by RTCC, updated daily from 0830-1700 GMT
Climate change a priority for Obama’s second term
Climate Live: The latest climate change headlines curated by RTCC, updated daily from 0830-1700 GMT
What a difference a storm makes
Next week Obama and Romney go head to head in the polls for the US presidency. Has Superstorm Sandy turned climate change into the deciding issue of the 2012 election?
Activists get vocal over Obama and Romney ‘climate silence’
New climatesilence website aims to track statements made by both US Presidential Candidates, ahead of the elections on 6 November.
Climate Live: Glasgow’s disused mines to heat the city, African farmers find ways to tackle drought and Obama says climate change is “not a hoax”
Today’s headlines, Glasgow’s disused mines to heat the city, African farmers find ways to tackle drought and Obama says climate change is “not a hoax”.
Obama tells crowd: “Denying climate change won’t make it stop”
Speaking to a crowd at Iowa State University, Obama calls of student to choose an energy future good for both the economy and the planet.