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OECD rejects EU industry’s carbon leakage arguments
NEWS: Tough climate rules have little impact on export competitiveness, find economists, so industry carve-outs are not justified
Clocking off: Can Wales’ steel heartland survive in a greener world?
LONG READ: A world of zero emissions signals huge upheavals for heavy industry. How might Britain’s last steel town fare later this century?
US youth take climate fight to Oregon courthouse
INTERVIEW: 19-year-old Kelsey Juliana tells Climate Home why she is taking on the government and fossil fuel interests
US, Canada to reveal new climate change goals
NEWS: Canadian PM Trudeau says he has an understanding with Obama over important issues that impact both countries, with climate change a priority
Is Brussels killing the Paris climate dream?
COMMENT: EU plans lock in weak ambition to 2030, undermining the review mechanism it fought for in December’s UN agreement
US forests struggle as drought and climate change bite
NEWS: The speed at which the climate is changing is outstripping forests’ ability to adapt to drier, hotter conditions across vast swathes of the US and Canada
Is climate change boosting US tornado numbers?
NEWS: Scientists say it’s too early to know for sure whether global warming caused by burning fossil fuels is to blame for a growing tornado threat
London: Fronting up to a global pollution battle
ANALYSIS: Candidates for upcoming mayoral election appear to agree the environment will be a vote-winner in May’s election, with potentially global ramifications
Climate change could make growing these crops in African regions impossible
NEWS: Farmers advised to swap beans, bananas and maize for hardier staples in face of hotter continent in new study
Hotter planet spells harder rains to come – study
NEWS: Planners told to boost flood defences especially in dry regions as global warming intensifies water cycle
25 years later: When the world united against climate change
FEATURE: The Paris climate deal was the latest chapter of a story that started a quarter of a century ago, and owes much to US Republicans and UK Conservatives
Weekly wrap: India praised for clean energy tax on coal
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Germany, Austria call for higher EU 2030 climate ambition
NEWS: Environment ministers criticise ‘very weak’ European Commission response to Paris climate pact – but other states defend existing target
Will Brazil new climate ‘sheriffs’ get Paris pledges on track?
COMMENT: A reshuffle in the environment ministry could spur vital progress on the country’s climate objectives, but big barriers lie ahead
Fiji needs help after Cyclone Winston, a portent of climate chaos to come
COMMENT: Maldives foreign minister urges international community to stand with Fiji as it recovers from Cyclone Winston
Climate change slows health gains from eating better – study
NEWS: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save half a million lives in 2050, researchers find, by preventing food crop damage
Alarm as DR Congo considers opening rainforest to loggers
NEWS: NGOs warn Kinshasa proposal threatens world’s second largest tropical forest, undermining climate commitments
EU plans no change to climate target before 2030
NEWS: Weak Commission proposal undermines Paris deal and hard-won trust of vulnerable countries, campaigners warn
Bin Laden urged Obama to tackle ‘climate catastrophe’
NEWS: Al Qaeda leader called on Barack Obama to ‘save humanity’ from climate change, declassified documents show
Reviving Hercules: Can carbon capture give British industry a future?
LONG READ: Megan Darby travels to Teesside, where locals hope a surge in green investment can save the region’s ailing industrial base