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Pollution levels in Delhi high despite odd-even traffic rule
COMMENT: Car use dropped and local politicians were praised for decisive action, but a partial driving ban did not lead to cleaner air as many had hoped
Big oil lines up to battle kids in climate court case
NEWS: American fossil fuel lobby takes government’s side against 21 young plaintiffs suing for stronger action on global warming
Obama blocks new coal mines on public land
UPDATED: US Department of the Interior announces moratorium on leases while overhauling system to reflect climate cost of extracting fossil fuels
Countries move to stop illicit Asian rosewood trade
NEWS: Senegal, Mexico call for protections at conservation summit to limit exports of lucrative hardwood used in luxury furniture
Taiwan election points to nuclear phase-out by 2023
NEWS: Ing-wen Tsai, who leads the presidential polls, envisions a ‘nuclear-free homeland’ with a bigger role for energy efficiency and renewables
Climate calamity ‘top threat’ to global economy in 2016
NEWS: Climate disasters seen doing greatest damage for first time, finds World Economic Forum survey of global risks
New UK climate strategy promised by end of 2016
NEWS: Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd says transport sector must accelerate transition to lower carbon forms of fuel
European wind industry is turning to emerging economies
INTERVIEW: Region’s turbine makers eye red-hot developing world as EU28 goes tepid on sector, says Brussels industry chief
Brazil inflames forest fires with pro-deforestation laws
NEWS: New laws under consideration will likely spark more tree-cutting − despite serious drought already contributing to a big increase in vast destructive fires
Barack Obama: Climate sceptics are a ‘pretty lonely’ bunch
NEWS: US leader makes case for accelerating clean energy transition in final State of Union address, citing economic benefits from cutting fossil fuels
Cameron: Criticism of UK climate policy is ‘nonsense’
NEWS: British prime minister dismisses concerns raised by investors, businesses and Al Gore about bonfire of green regulations
Climate policies on collision course with clean cookstoves drive
NEWS: Switching from dirty wood stoves to propane saves lives, but carbon pricing threatens to make it unaffordable for millions in South Asia
Coal, steel sectors to suffer as China pollution drive accelerates
ANALYSIS: Experts say tougher laws and penalties could signal turning point in environmental fight in China, as president Xi Jinping urges officials to crack down on inefficient state industries
UK tree-planting push could offset farming footprint – study
NEWS: Country could cut emissions by converting arable land to absorb more carbon dioxide, but risks displacing climate impact of food production overseas
US boom boosts global carbon markets in 2015
NEWS: Global volume of carbon credits shrinks but ‘boom time’ in California, Quebec and North West US sees overall value leap 9%
Brazil climate plan on standby as Rousseff totters
ANALYSIS: Brasilia is too preoccupied with economic crisis and attempts to impeach the president to push the low carbon agenda
Arch Coal goes bankrupt as US sector declines
NEWS: Clean power plan and global demand slowdown hit mining companies for the dirtiest fossil fuel
US climate policies boosted economy $2.2 billion in 2013
NEWS: It’s not just the planet that benefits from reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that intensify global warming, says new study
Beyond oil: Petropower Saudi Arabia signals end of era
ANALYSIS: Squeezed by falling oil prices and costly subsidies, Riyadh is finally getting serious about economic reform
Bush recognised climate as a ‘real problem’ reveal Clinton-Blair calls
NEWS: Incoming Republican presidential candidate saw global warming as a threat, but three months later he killed Kyoto Protocol