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Kevin Rudd: ‘I don’t know how Malcolm Turnbull faces his grandkids’
Australia’s former prime minister talks about the failure of his country’s climate policy, the rise of China and the Carmichael coal mine
Climate Weekly: oil man out, oil money in?
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Communities face down plans to expand Britain’s last coal mines
‘It was cruel what we went through’. As the UK weighs whether to allow its ailing mines to stumble on, community activists ask when enough is enough?
Pompeo, Koch ally and Paris climate critic, tipped as US secretary of state
Rex Tillerson is headed for the exit, according to reports, to be replaced by a vocal opponent of climate action
How New Zealand can make world-leading climate refugee visas work
Wellington wants to give a home to Pacific island neighbours threatened by sea level rise. Here are six things to consider
India raises $400m green bond to fund renewables drive
Money raised by the Power Finance Corporation will support solar and wind projects, contributing to national renewables target of 175GW capacity by 2022
Australia: Labor victory a ‘death knell for Adani’ coal mine
Queensland Labor looks certain to form government promising to veto a public loan, observers say that puts the southern hemisphere’s biggest coal project in serious doubt
Sexual harassment at UN talks weakens the fight against climate change
‘Zero tolerance’ only works when victims feel comfortable coming forward. Meanwhile smart, passionate women are driven away from the UN process
EU commission urged bank to support Azerbaijan gas pipeline
Letter from top officials to the president of the EIB said Europe’s commitment to the pipeline ‘must not wane’ and called for publicly-backed loans
Cleaner coolants fund gets $540m – and US backing
The Trump administration is set to ratify the Kigali Amendment to phase down potent warming HFC gases, while helping fund poor countries to make the switch
Climate Weekly: German political crisis creates emissions stalemate
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German Greens reveal coal phase-out red line for joining government
The Green Party will only join a coalition promising to close at least 7GW of coal power capacity by 2020, its lawmakers say, as Germany likely faces another election
We are [not] still in: can the world ever trust US again on climate?
The US has always been an unreliable actor on climate change. This month’s sideshow to UN talks in Bonn only emphasised its internal conflicts
Let’s ban car advertising to protect public health
Public health hazards like smoking commonly face advertising restrictions. Simon Dalby of Wilfrid Laurier University asks why we don’t do the same for climate change
Russia brands environmental NGOs ‘foreign agents’
At least 14 green groups have shut down since falling foul of Moscow’s anti-spy legislation, according to Human Rights Watch
Cop23 UN climate talks: Everything you need to know
The US’ split personality, a stronger China and all the technical outcomes of the 2017 Fiji-in-Bonn summit in one place, compiled by Carbon Brief
Former UN climate chief lobbies against $1bn loan to Australian coal train
Christiana Figueres warns subsidising Adani’s controversial Carmichael mega-mine would damage Australia’s reputation abroad
Rich countries ‘trying to turn climate funds into World Bank’
The rich are ‘renegotiating’ the Paris climate deal by trying to limit access for middle income countries to climate finance, it has been claimed
China flexes its muscle as climate talks end with slow progress
At the first climate talks of the Trump era, a coalition of developing countries, with China at its centre, won small but significant victories
Fight over finance threatens end of climate talks
As climate talks head into their final hours, a disagreement over how rich countries will report their plans to finance climate action could boil over