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Oil majors to release climate plans on 16 October, says Total chief

NEWS: Industry must take offensive with carbon cutting plans to avoid portrayal as “devils”, CEO tells top executives at London conference

NEWS: Lord Browne urges fossil fuel giants to prove their worth, as executives downplay climate risk at major industry event

NEWS: Petropowers like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria should only submit carbon-cutting plans if they are “win-win”, says Abdalla Salem El-Badri

NEWS: Ben van Beurden says industry, regulators should rally behind Shell and European oil majors’ joint call to make polluters pay

NEWS: Energy secretary Amber Rudd says rollback of clean energy subsidies not borne of ideology but faster way to cut emissions

NEWS: Leaders Modi and Merkel agree renewables finance package and to cooperate on plans for global climate deal in Paris

NEWS: Far right ex-environment minister Owen Paterson appropriated new movement for war against the “green blob”, to the dismay of founders

NEWS: After spending US$7 billion on exploration in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, company finds insufficient oil to continue controversial venture

Ed King, Business Green’s James Murray and Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group discuss the state of low carbon planning in the UK

NEWS: Fledgling technology key to 2050 climate targets dealt blow as govt commitment to low carbon agenda questioned

NEWS: New carbon cutting targets from multinationals are welcome, but VW scandal demonstrates need for scepticism

NEWS: Oil major to launch new low carbon programme with BHP Billiton, Statoil and some solar firms in bid to green image

NEWS: Scale of ditched assets enters trillions of dollars, smashing expectations as private firms lead charge, study says

NEWS: Huge levels of subsidies still flowing to oil, gas and coal sector suggest governments not taking climate threat to heart

NEWS: Top carbon emitter’s coal usage since 2000 has rocketed as data revisions lay bare faulty accounting, analysts suggest

NEWS: But with energy demand set to double, don’t expect that to scotch fossil fuels for decades, says Ben van Beurden

NEWS: Investors call on government to support renewables sector, which faces cash crisis as stock market woes intensify

NEWS: Apollo project will clamour at UN summit for US$15 billion in renewable investment a year this decade to halt climate change

NEWS: British cuts to clean energy support have baffled financiers, says consultancy EY, while Santiago has a winning strategy

NEWS: Controversial plans to drill in Arctic said to be last straw for fellow members of influential European climate grouping