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US to double climate adaptation finance by 2020 – Kerry
NEWS: Secretary of state announces funds to protect world’s poor from global warming impacts will rise to $800 million, as part of ‘high ambition coalition’ at COP21 negotiations
Podcast: What does China want from the Paris climate talks?
Greenpeace China analyst Li Shuo outlines Beijing’s key asks at COP21 to Climate Home’s Megan Darby in our latest podcast from the negotiations
Ecuador minister ‘quietly optimistic’ at Paris climate summit
INTERVIEW: Daniel Ortega Pacheco tells Climate Home French presidency has impressed but main test is to come, and questions impact of EU’s new ‘coalition of ambition’
Pretty green: The youth clamouring for a climate deal
BLOG: They’re unruly, idealistic and shout loudest for justice. But are they being heard? We met five twentysomethings at COP21
Paris climate talks: What do the last 3 days have in store?
ANALYSIS: Oil producers, forest nations, high-tech trading centres, low lying and desert countries all have distinct interests to protect. This is where it gets serious.
Podcast: What is Russia up to at the Paris climate talks?
Megan Darby talks to WWF Russia’s Alexey Kokorin about Vladimir Putin and why forests are the best bet for Russian climate policy
UK opposition leaders urge climate policy rethink
NEWS: Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn say evident dangers of climate change should prompt Number 10 to reverse green cuts
Brazil tasked with resolving rich-poor divide at climate talks
NEWS: Hosts hope Latin American giant can help draft compromise allowing developed and developing nations to back new global climate deal on Friday
Scientists: 1.5C warming limit means fossil fuel phase-out by 2030
NEWS: Global greenhouse gas emissions stalled in 2015, but tough target demanded by climate vulnerable countries looks unattainable
India can accept 1.5C warming limit – if rich nations make the carbon cuts
NEWS: Chief negotiator tells Climate Home Delhi is open to more ambitious global goals, but warns it’s rich nations who will have to take up the slack
Exxon put on mock trial in Paris for ‘climate crimes’
BLOG: Oil major not found guilty – nor innocent – of deliberately denying global warming as celebrity judges leave audience to make up their own minds
Soft power: Check out the Paris climate summit national pavilions
VIDEO: Over 190 countries are in Paris to save the world from dangerous global warming. But they’re also here to show off their latest gizmos and cut some juicy deals
Marshall Islands minister Tony de Brum loses election
UPDATED: International climate change advocate will leave government in January, after fighting for a UN deal at COP21 in Paris
COP21: Climate Home speaks to India’s chief climate negotiator
Q&A: Susheel Kumar, a key negotiator of Indian delegation opens up to Climate Home’s Avik Roy on what is at stake and India’s determined position at COP21 in Paris
Saudi Arabia, India quash UN study warning of 2C dangers
NEWS: Island nations left distraught as major carbon polluters block report that suggested limiting temperature rises to well below 2C would be safer for millions
COP21: Climate finance row burning bright as clock ticks on talks
NEWS: Negotiations heat up as developed, developing and emerging economies get cold feet over long term funding figures
Africa’s green belt gets greenbacks to halt spreading Sahara
NEWS: France’s Francois Hollande and donors put up $4 bn for band of trees stretching 7,100km from Djibouti to Dakar
Germany and France back 1.5C global warming limit
NEWS: Countries vulnerable to climate change impact welcomed show of support for tighter temperature goal at COP21 in Paris
COP21: EU sidelined by US, China say experts
NEWS: Brussels engineered work on a 2015 UN climate deal back in 2011, but internal rows have lessened its impact at Paris summit
India: Paris climate talks problem-child or green leader?
ANALYSIS: Delhi has huge plans to invest in solar but it’s the country’s longstanding coal addiction that has climate experts worried