UN climate talks
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
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
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
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
Sexual harassment at UN talks weakens the fight against climate change
‘Zero tolerance’ only works when victims feel comfortable coming forward. Meanwhile smart, passionate women are driven away from the UN process
Rich countries ‘trying to turn climate funds into World Bank’
The rich are ‘renegotiating’ the Paris climate deal by trying to limit access for middle income countries to climate finance, it has been claimed
China flexes its muscle as climate talks end with slow progress
At the first climate talks of the Trump era, a coalition of developing countries, with China at its centre, won small but significant victories
Fight over finance threatens end of climate talks
As climate talks head into their final hours, a disagreement over how rich countries will report their plans to finance climate action could boil over
Four overlooked issues at the Bonn climate talks
Oceans, adaptation and loss and damage among issues countries say have drifted into obscurity at UN talks
Call for polluters to pay ‘climate damages tax’
Disappointed by slow progress at UN talks in Bonn, 50 organisations and individuals demand a fossil fuel levy to compensate victims of climate change impacts
Indigenous peoples given a voice at UN climate talks
Often persecuted, indigenous people have now been accepted into the climate process and a space made for their voices to be heard
Macron: France will replace US funding for UN climate science
French president said Europe must step into the leadership role the US had abandoned, while Angela Merkel struggled with Germany’s political uncertainty
Green Climate Fund simplifies application process for small projects
UN-backed fund aims to make it easier for developing country institutions to access cash for sustainable development and resilience projects
China, India policies improve global warming outlook: analysis
Climate Action Tracker expects 3.4C warming by the end of the century, based on the sum of national policies, compared to a 3.6C prediction last year
Developing countries win concessions on early climate action at UN talks
A row over the promises rich countries made on climate action before 2020 has been resolved at negotiations in Bonn, with several wins for developing countries
Trump’s ‘top priority’ at climate talks: protecting an Obama legacy
In Bonn, Trump adviser George David Banks says the US will fight Chinese efforts to reintroduce a division between rich and poor countries into the Paris deal
It’s war in the Amazon, says Brazil’s top environmental law enforcer
Local politicians are colluding with gangs to undermine rainforest protection, Luciano Evaristo tells delegates at UN climate talks in Bonn
Trump’s climate official: ‘I actually don’t know what 2C means’
The US came to sell fossil fuels as a solution to climate change, but were interrupted by protests as the divided US arrived in Bonn
Germans deny Erdoğan’s desire for climate finance
Turkey has threatened not to ratify the Paris climate deal, but a German proposal refused to grant its wish to access the Green Climate Fund