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New York summit renews confidence in climate action
ANALYSIS: From 400,000 marching in the streets of New York to the affirmations of world leaders at the UN, there is a renewed confidence in climate action
10 best leaders’ pledges at the UN summit
ANALYSIS: World leaders delivered around 16 hours of speeches yesterday. But who actually delivered meaningful pledges?
Costa Rica is green and growing despite climate concerns
COMMENT: Costa Rica is vulnerable to climate change but benefits from green policies, writes environment minister
Looming China policy may decide coal market fate
ANALYSIS: The future for coal producers will hinge on the world’s largest emitter and its next five-year plan
What to watch for at the New York climate summit
COMMENT: As leaders flock to New York for tomorrow’s climate summit, E3G gives some hints on what to expect
London’s climate march was a carnival for all
COMMENT: Talking about climate change no longer makes you the person to avoid at parties, says RTCC’s Sophie Yeo. At today’s march, those people were the party
Marshalls president: “The beaches where I used to fish are underwater”
COMMENT: President Christopher Loeak issues rallying call to leaders ahead of Ban Ki-moon summit, as ocean threatens to flood his islands
Quamrul Chowdhury: Leaders must commit to 1.5C warming limit
COMMENT: Lead climate negotiator for least developed countries says he wants firm commitments at New York summit
New York: where the carbon bubble threat goes mainstream?
ANALYSIS: Ban Ki-moon’s summit next week is a chance to alert financiers to climate risk, but will they get the message?
REDD+ needs to protect forests and boost rural development
COMMENT: UN efforts to protect forests in developing countries must also show economic benefits
To fight climate change, we in the UK are better together
COMMENT: An independent Scotland – or the rest of the UK it leaves behind – will not hold much sway at climate talks
Analysis: Flawed economics clouds case for climate action
Current government models assume perfect markets and no costs from pollution, skewing views on policies to cut carbon
New Climate Economy: it’s not just another report
COMMENT: Publication marks an important moment in the gathering global politics of climate change, argues Michael Jacobs
Leading philanthropic foundations can create climate “tipping point”
COMMENT: Jeremy Leggett from Carbon Tracker outlines five ways philanthropists can use wallets to curb carbon emissions
Finance finally on horizon for UN’s Green Climate Fund
COMMENT: Civil society observer says latest meeting of flagship green fund has left her cautiously optimistic
How new EU climate chiefs can make a green energy union
COMMENT: An open letter to Alenka Bratušek, vice president for Energy Union, and Miguel Arias Cañete, European commissioner for climate action and energy
Which narrative will prevail at the UN’s climate summit?
COMMENT: Debate over the costs of action versus the costs of inaction is likely to dominate Ban Ki-moon’s high level gathering
Climate risk and green growth underpin UK’s 2015 strategy
ANALYSIS: Business opportunities and economic potential central as climate secretary Ed Davey unveils Paris plan
It’s time for the EU to end the era of dirty coal power
COMMENT: Joss Garman from the IPPR thinktank says European governments should make unabated coal use illegal
John Ashton: Norway must use oil fund to drive clean energy revolution
SPEECH: UK’s former chief climate diplomat offers reflections on Europe, energy and climate change