Adaptation
Climate calamity ‘top threat’ to global economy in 2016
NEWS: Climate disasters seen doing greatest damage for first time, finds World Economic Forum survey of global risks
Rampant El Nino offers glimpse of future climate risks
ANALYSIS: Weather phenomenon exposes how unprepared world is for economic, security and humanitarian impacts of global warming
Drought has hit global cereal crops harder since 1980s
NEWS: Extreme weather is increasingly affecting agricultural production, study reveals, with biggest losses in developed countries
Seychelles dodges ‘debt hole’ with pledge to protect oceans
NEWS: Climate ambassador of tiny island nation hails innovative debt swap in return for agreement to safeguard vast area of sea
UN: Freak weather a warning to step up climate defences
NEWS: After severe flooding and shock tornadoes, now is time get serious about precautionary policies to counter climate impacts says UN disaster chief
Global weather extremes underline climate threat, say experts
NEWS: El Nino, record heat and natural variability combine to highlight growing threats in a warming world
Changing climate swells tide of migrants
NEWS: Report coinciding with the UN’s International Migrants Day says that climate change is one of several factors increasing the flow of refugees worldwide
Did the Paris deal rule out climate compensation?
ANALYSIS: Vulnerable countries and big polluters alike read victories in UN climate pact, but the prospect of litigation remains live
Africa’s green belt gets greenbacks to halt spreading Sahara
NEWS: France’s Francois Hollande and donors put up $4 bn for band of trees stretching 7,100km from Djibouti to Dakar
$1 trillion funding gap for poorest countries’ climate plans
NEWS: Pledges by 48 least developed countries to a UN deal need more than $90 billion a year between 2020 and 2030 to implement, says IIED
‘I’m going to Paris because I’m fighting for my home’
COMMENT: Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner explains why she has decided to travel thousands of miles to France, and why she’s not leaving without an ambitious climate deal
Bangladesh capital faces future influx of climate refugees
NEWS: Rising sea levels and cyclones spell huge migrations to overpopulated Dhaka if the planet doesn’t cut carbon emissions fast enough
Nepal’s farmers turn ‘climate smart’ as erratic rains bite
NEWS: Plastic sheeting, plywood and resilient seeds can make a huge difference to communities faced with increasingly tough climate-linked impacts
Meet the Indian islanders losing ground to the sea
NEWS: In the Bay of Bengal, Ghoromara faces disaster as the rising ocean eats away at people’s homeland
No backpedalling on UN deal, say Africa’s endurance cyclists
NEWS: Teams of bikers pass baton across vulnerable continent to drum up support for global pact to cap warming to 1.5C
Climate change could push 100m into extreme poverty
NEWS: World Bank warns of human impact by 2030 if development doesn’t protect the most vulnerable from extreme weather
US considers Bikini Atoll climate refugee claims
NEWS: Decades after a nuclear bomb uprooted a small group of Pacific islanders, global warming could make them homeless yet again
Persian Gulf faces ‘intolerable’ heat on current emissions trends
NEWS: It is in the interests of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to back global action on climate change, study shows
UN land restoration pact boosts Paris climate summit
NEWS: Diplomats strike ‘breakthrough’ deal to halt degradation of world’s terrain from 2030, but US$30bn price tag looms large
Sri Lanka makes compensation plea in UN climate pledge
NEWS: Island off tip of southern India wants reimbursing for the $420m it plans to spend by 2025 on warding off extreme weather