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UN climate boss offers to work with Trump on carbon plan
Patricia Espinosa extends offer to New Yorker’s team as head of C40 city alliance says US mayors will push ahead with implementing climate plans
Keep calm and carry on: UN climate talks swerve US vote
Proposed landing ground for 2016 climate summit dodges Trump bullet, focusing on global steps to tackle greenhouse gas emissions in coming 5 years
How could the Trump presidency impact global climate policy?
If Obama Clean Power Plan is stopped, US emissions projections would be significantly higher than in its absence and we will see an increasing emissions trend in 2020s
January 20, 2018: the day US could leave the Paris agreement
One year from his inauguration, Trump could take the US out of the Paris deal and into the climate wilderness
Uncertainty on Trump climate stance overshadows UN talks
At COP22 in Marrakech, delegates struggle to digest the property billionaire’s surge to the US presidency
The Paris Agreement will survive President Trump
Donald Trump is a disaster for the climate, but clever drafting of the UN pact will limit the damage, says Thomas Hale
AS IT HAPPENED: UN climate talks reaction as Trump wins US presidency
Rolling updates from the COP22 summit in Marrakech. All times GMT
Silent but deadly: the Trump effect on COP22
As Americans go to the polls, at Marrakech climate talks delegates are publicly confident and privately anxious
US flirts with delusion after five years of wild weather
World Meteorological Organization report shows Hurricane Sandy, 2014 Atlantic cyclones and a 2012 heatwave were made more intense by climate change
India claims subsidy-free carbon capture using UK, US-backed tech
Company founded by two Indian entrepreneurs claims it can capture a tonne of CO2 for $30 a tonne – far cheaper than the $60-90/t demonstrated elsewhere
Former US slave nation heads to Marrakech climate summit
“It means so much to our community for me to get there and have our story be a part of this finally,” says Queen Quet of the Gullah-Geechee nation
China’s top envoy criticises Trump climate stance
Xie Zhenhua tells US presidential candidate a wise political leader conforms with global trends
UN climate body: no ‘Plan B’ if Trump is elected
Republican victory would likely mean climate policy heads for the bin, but Patricia Espinosa says world will hold US to deal made in 2015
Pope’s climate message did not sway US Republicans – study
Right-wing Catholics attacked Pope Francis’ credibility rather than change their political views, survey shows
Podesta email dump reveals tight US-China climate ties
Todd Stern and Xie Zhenhua were opposing climate envoys for nearly five years – but in the heat of international negotiations they forged a vital friendship
Greenland warns Denmark over thawing US military bases
A warming Arctic is unfreezing toxic Cold War relics and with them, disputes between the US, Denmark and Greenland
US energy emissions fall to 25-year low
Mild weather, booming renewable energy and massive declines in coal consumption contribute to falling greenhouse gas pollution
Climate change blamed for doubling of US forest fires
The number of blazes in the western US has doubled since the 1980s, with global warming and regional dryness at least 55% responsible, study finds
What top US writers get wrong about climate politics
David Roberts and Bill McKibben are two of the most influential writers about climate change, but they miss a trick by ignoring vulnerable countries, writes Michael Dobson
Will the US align fossil fuel production with climate goals?
The Obama administration is considering supply-side policies that could transform the climate debate, writes Peter Erickson