UN climate talks
10 takeaways from UN report on national climate pledges
ANALYSIS: Most countries got involved, adaptation matters and emissions are still rising – nuggets from official review ahead of Paris summit
John Kerry: World must seize chance to kill climate warming HFCs
US secretary of state calls for upcoming Dubai Montreal Protocol meet to agree tough curbs on gases used in air conditioning and fridges
UN: Paris climate plans slow emissions growth to 2030
NEWS: Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to carbon cuts, admits a global deal needs to ensure these are deeper and faster
Segolene Royal, Prince Charles target Paris deforestation goal
NEWS: French environment chief and Crown Prince urge governments to take tough line on destruction of world’s forests ahead of COP21 summit
Carbon c-Reddit: UN climate chief takes on internet
BLOG: Christiana Figueres participates in Ask Me Anything on online forum as focus on Paris summit builds
National climate plans could face 2018 review under UN deal
NEWS: Fears that emission reductions could drop off the agenda post Paris are driving support behind an early assessment of global carbon cuts
Video: Jairam Ramesh talks up India’s climate progress
New Delhi has taken controversial steps to reduce emissions intensity and push solar power, says former environment minister
Poland can break coal chokehold, says clean power body
NEWS: Country can loosen fossil fuel’s grip on energy system by quintupling share of renewables to 38% by 2030, says IRENA
Video: Monica Araya on rich-poor climate relations
Developing countries are not just victims of climate change, says former Costa Rican negotiator and founder of think tank Nivela
Podcast: What did we learn from last week’s UN climate talks?
Finance, fireworks and a text: Ed King, WWF’s Tasneem Essop and former BBC environment correspondent Richard Black discuss the recent Bonn negotiations
Video: Pete Ogden talks US climate politics and COP21
Pope Francis and Xi Jinping are raising the profile of climate change in Washington, says ex White House staffer and Center for American Progress senior fellow
Don’t bet on a Polish EU climate policy revolt – analysts
ANALYSIS: Opposition bid to renegotiate bloc’s 2030 package dismissed as ‘posturing’ as voters set to dump government, analysts say
UN calls for ministers as climate talks head for Paris
NEWS: As fraught final round of interim talks ends, diplomats turn to their political masters to land an elusive global deal
Sri Lanka makes compensation plea in UN climate pledge
NEWS: Island off tip of southern India wants reimbursing for the $420m it plans to spend by 2025 on warding off extreme weather
Weekly wrap: G77 gets its mojo back in Bonn
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Vulnerable countries warned: Protect your legal rights in a Paris accord
COMMENT: Countries may be waiving claims to future climate compensation in a new deal. Know what you’re signing away, writes barrister Tim Crosland
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: It’s (not) all these negotiators are asking
SKETCH: Venezuela’s Claudia Salerno drops the C-bomb (no, the other one) after climate talks session starts without her in Bonn
Life or death: G77 demands climate finance guarantee
NEWS: Developing countries are pulling together at interim climate talks in a last push before December’s Paris summit
Apples, apartheid and surgery: The pick of climate analogies
BLOG: Several new phrases made it into the UN vernacular this week as countries clashed at UN climate talks in Bonn
What game theorists predict for a Paris climate deal
NEWS: Academics expect weak language on compensating victims of global warming, but agreement on a long-term global emissions target