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UK climate adviser backs Theresa May as new PM
Lord Deben says incoming prime minister’s silence on climate change should not be taken as scepticism – but warns tough choices for Number 10 lie ahead
Christiana Figueres places ‘hope’ at centre of UN pitch
Buoyed from the success of the Paris climate agreement, Costa Rican diplomat aims for New York top job
How China could peak CO2 emissions by 2022
Detailed policy proposals by influential Chinese and US researchers show potential to speed up low carbon shift
Javedekar out, Dave in as India’s environment minister
Anil Madhav Dave takes over the climate change brief from Prakash Javadekar, who has been promoted to a cabinet role
Christiana Figueres launches UN secretary general bid
Costa Rican says she will keep vow to protect world’s most vulnerable if she is appointed to New York post later this year
Fracking will blow UK carbon goals without stricter rules
Government advisers also say more action would be needed to cut emissions in other areas to cope with full-scale fracking, reports the Guardian
Can nuclear really deliver 25% of global electricity by 2050?
Despite a record-breaking year of global nuclear construction in 2015, a report by the industry recognises that it still faces unresolved problems and uncertainties
Banks urged to blacklist Czech coal guzzler EPH
NGOs tell Citibank, HSBC and JP Morgan they are undermining climate policy by financing fossil fuel spree
UK climate adviser warns of ‘far right’ attacks after Brexit
Head of UK Committee on Climate Change criticises Brexit backers, suggesting they will seek to undermine green regulations
Offshore wind costs hit record low
Two 350MW arrays in the Netherlands will supply power at €87/MWh, beating the next cheapest project by miles
UK climate change sceptics botch Paris deal hit-job
Critics of the UK’s climate policy sense a window of opportunity post Brexit, but an inability to download the right PDF is hampering their hopes
IEA: China is building a third of Africa’s new power capacity
Chinese state-owned companies are increasingly active in sub-Saharan Africa and dominate the hydropower dam business
Laurence Tubiana: Paris deal should be operational by 2018
UN climate champion and France envoy talks to Climate Home on the sidelines of the Business and Climate summit in London, revealing her hopes and plans through to 2018
Saudi Arabia, Germany to ratify UN climate deal in 2016
Europe’s top economy and world’s second-largest oil producer signal plans to ratify global pact to limit warming to sub 2C
Mind the gap: Financing Africa’s energy boom
A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London’s Africa Energy Forum
Segolene Royal: EU should approve UN climate deal in 2016
France’s influential environment chief says she wants heads of state to agree on backing the Paris deal before the next UN summit in November
India’s solar plans receive billion dollar boost
World Bank loan comes off back of major funding pledges from US and Germany as major economies try and wean Delhi off coal
Green Climate Fund to target ‘high risk’ investments
Projects in Africa and Asia set to benefit as GCF sets out stall to be top clean energy and resilience lender to developing countries
EU decaf: UK could copy Norway’s climate policy, say ministers
Norwegian minister Vidar Helgesen, French envoy Laurence Tubiana and Dutch minister Sharon Dijksma give their views on Brexit
UK carbon target soothes investor nerves amid Brexit confusion
Parliament set to confirm low carbon direction, but leadership contest spells continued uncertainty over policy details