Climate politics
Germany ‘massively weakened’ draft G20 climate plan to appease Trump
Latest draft of German plan for next week’s Hamburg meeting contains major concessions to US and opens door for coal projects to be defined as “clean”
Modi and Adani: the old friends laying waste to India’s environment
India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?
Modi and Trump avoid climate change tension on state visit
Trade and migration are dominated the Indian prime minister’s visit to the White House, with differences on the Paris Agreement side-stepped
US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change
The US said climate change had “a range of implications for the effective enjoyment of human rights”, in a departure from recent diplomacy and Trump’s rhetoric
Climate Weekly: Norway sends Brazil an Amazon warning
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Norway rebukes Brazil’s Temer over Amazon deforestation
Norway’s environment minister Vidar Helgesen warns that assault on forest protection jeopardises aid payments to Brazil through the Amazon Fund
Brazil’s Temer vetoes rollback of Amazon forest protections
Brazilian president blocks the deregulation of 1.4m acres, under international pressure, but a new bill seeks to open Amazon forests to farming and mining
Climate Weekly: A positive instalment
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Poor world calls for climate finance to fill Trump void
US climate finance axe exposes poor communities worldwide, say negotiators and aid experts, putting pressure on other countries to step up
Climate Weekly: Indian solar’s house of cards
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Trump hasn’t actually left the Paris climate deal. Not yet
Despite the headlines and Donald Trump’s rhetoric, the official US position remains unchanged and where things go from here are unclear
Climate Weekly: Paranoid, sociopathic Trump leaves the planet
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EU-China: New ‘climate leaders’ are also enamoured of fossil fuels
Gas imports to Europe from the US and massive future coal burning in China undermine the rhetoric of the world’s new self-proclaimed climate spearheads
Club of Rome president: climate sanctions on US ‘a lovely idea’
“I suspect he is a loser president,” says Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. But conceded trade barrier from the EU were unlikely
Trump desire to renegotiate Paris deal ‘incoherent’ and ‘clumsy’
Trump’s speech was “divisive”, “unnecessarily isolating” and utterly misunderstood the agreement from which he has now withdrawn, experts said
Republican ‘climate caucus’ offered little support for Paris deal
Republican who signed up to climate action all but evaporated in the lead up to Trump’s momentous decision, highlighting deep-set opposition to global cooperation
EU-China climate statement is a manifesto for a new global order
The ten-page document affirms, in extraordinarily strong language, that the EU and China intend to make the US irrelevant
White House debate on Paris was never about climate change
The wrangling between Trump’s advisors was always about how best to burn more fossil fuels
Donald Trump says US will leave Paris climate agreement
Donald Trump withdraws the US from 2015 Paris climate agreement, leaving the US standing almost alone against action on climate change
As it happened: Trump says US will withdraw from Paris climate deal
Live coverage as the US president announces heavily-rumoured decision to leave Paris climate agreement. Follow @karlmathiesen or email [email protected]