UN climate talks
Climate denial is alive and kicking say scientists
NEWS: Study mines 16,000 documents from conservative thinktanks for insights into how they “manufacture doubt” on climate change
Nations urged to improve climate pledges by April 2017
NEWS: Date UN shuts book for signing Paris agreement is the moment for world to show it’s cutting carbon faster, says Dutch think tank
Five surprises on the path to a Paris climate deal
ANALYSIS: Terrorist attacks, climate lawsuits and the inclusion of 1.5C in the Paris Agreement were among the unforeseen events of 2015
Fossil fuel supply ‘a crucial omission’ from Paris climate deal
COMMENT: Policymakers should target coal, oil and gas at source, argue Harro van Asselt and Michael Lazarus
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
Climate calendar: With Paris over, now what?
ANALYSIS: 195 countries struck a landmark global warming deal in France last week. They’ve got work to do before it takes effect in 2020
Venezuela: From bloodied hand to shock climate pledge
ANALYSIS: Once a fierce critic of the UN climate negotiations, Claudia Salerno became one of the strongest supporters of a Paris deal
COP21: Business leaders react to UN climate deal
COP21: Companies and trade associations hail endorsement of low-carbon transition, but insist it plays out in clear policy decisions
China rescues US from Paris climate deal ‘typo’ fiasco
EXCLUSIVE: The US panicked at the inclusion of a legally binding term in historic UN climate change pact, prompting last minute huddles
Decoding the Paris climate deal: What does it mean?
ANALYSIS: Climate policy expert Gerard Wynn decodes a new global deal – which is likely to have profound impacts on business, finance and energy sectors
Paris climate pact spells slow death for fossil fuels
NEWS: Two weeks of intense negotiations set to conclude with historic agreement that will see coal, oil and gas use phased out
UN climate talks ‘moving to end’ with new draft deal
NEWS: Paris summit draws to close as French presidency announces it will present new and final proposal for deal at 1130 on Saturday morning
As it happened: 195 countries agree Paris climate deal
ROLLING COVERAGE: Agreement aims to hold global warming to ‘well below 2C’ and help the world’s poor cope with climate change impacts
Brazil backs ‘high ambition coalition’ to break Paris deadlock
NEWS: Decision marks a rupture in BASIC bloc as India, China opposed to groups’ faster carbon-cutting aims
Rhetoric or reality? Climate scientists divided on 1.5C warming goal
NEWS: Tighter warming limit is meaningless without decarbonisation pathway, say experts as countries close in on Paris climate deal
As it happened: Paris COP21 climate talks run into overtime
LIVE: Paris summit will spill into overtime as COP president Laurent Fabius reveals he will deliver the final draft on Saturday morning
Thursday’s draft Paris agreement aims for ‘well below 2C’ warming
NEWS: Version presented by French presidency on Thursday evening well received, but some issues remain unresolved going into final day of COP21
Climate finance: A gaping wound that needs healing
ANALYSIS: The rich say they’re coughing up, the poor say they’re not getting enough, emerging economies are kicking off. Who’s right?
A brief history of the 1.5C target
ANALYSIS: Like most overnight successes, a campaign by vulnerable countries for a stricter warming limit is based on years of groundwork
Podcast: How climate vulnerable countries are setting the agenda in Paris
Megan Darby talks to Monica Araya, former Costa Rica negotiator and founder of think tank Nivela, about an extraordinary push for a 1.5C global warming limit at COP21