Climate politics
Davos 2018: climate change rhetoric and reality
The movers and shakers at the World Economic Forum warn climate change is a major threat to prosperity, but what are they doing about it?
Polish police set to restrict protest and gather personal data at UN climate talks
Draft law worries civil society groups, who say they are already being excluded from the international climate process
Climate Weekly: Estonia’s shrinking forests
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Climate Weekly: Macron grabs Merkel’s climate crown
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International dismay at Germany’s 2020 climate target lapse
Reports Berlin will abandon its ambitious carbon-cutting goal with two years to go are “disheartening” and “problematic”, say observers
Macron urges Chinese people to “make our planet great again” – in Mandarin
French president did not announce any new climate initiatives with Xi Jinping on China visit, but his efforts to learn the language went viral
Germany set to abandon 2020 climate target: reports
Angela Merkel’s party and the Social Democrats agree the 40% emissions cut will not be achieved until the early 2020s, coalition negotiators told newswires
Climate Weekly: 2018 heralds lawsuits and 1.5C debate
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Five big gaps in national climate plans – and how to close them
The Paris climate deal is based on pledges from 165 countries, but there are major omissions that need addressing before the next round in 2020
Mapped: A world tour of 2017 in climate change news
What a year. Take a virtual world tour of our 21 top stories, from forest diamonds to Fiji-on-the-Rhine climate talks. Yes, Donald Trump makes an appearance
Climate Weekly: Macron banks on green capitalism
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US ‘no position’ on how much humans are changing climate, says Trump envoy
George David Banks speaks with Arthur Neslen about keeping the US in the Paris deal, morale in the state department and why he said he didn’t know what 2C means
Macron summit touts green finance progress – despite Trump
Paris meeting showed movement towards cleaner investments by development banks and the private sector, but there was little new money for the poorest
Civil society summit calls for international action on climate migration
Campaign groups meeting in Suva, Fiji, urged recognition of climate change in the global compact for migration due to be negotiated in 2018
Climate Weekly: Macron shipping declaration exclusive
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Macron summit to launch call for shipping to meet Paris climate goals
Declaration obtained by Climate Home News urges the International Maritime Organization to set emissions targets in line with “well below 2C” global warming limit
Canada and China to strengthen cooperation on climate, carbon markets
On a state visit to Beijing, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau struck a deal that will weave climate action into a potential trade agreement
In Poland’s coal heartland, miners defend their jobs but imagine a greener future
While the government champions coal, the area around Katowice, host of next year’s UN climate summit, is starting to diversify its economy
What would Hannah Arendt have seen on a beach covered in plastic bottles?
Only banal good can defeat banal evil. Kerrie Foxwell-Norton writes from the rubbish-strewn beaches of the southern Maldives
Climate Weekly: oil man out, oil money in?
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