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Germany ‘massively weakened’ draft G20 climate plan to appease Trump
Latest draft of German plan for next week’s Hamburg meeting contains major concessions to US and opens door for coal projects to be defined as “clean”
Green Climate Fund urged to embrace development links
Adapting to the impacts of climate change goes hand-in-hand with wider development objectives for poor countries, NGOs tell UN flagship climate finance scheme
Even Boeing-747 tanker jets can’t win our total war on fires
The more effectively we suppress fires, the worse they become. As climate change makes the world more combustible, we need a new approach
Violence spreads ahead of election in drought-hit Kenya
Politicians have been accused of stoking land conflict between farmers, herders and indigenous groups to win votes, while failing to address the root cause
Calling China’s carbon market ‘ambitious’ shows how low the bar has fallen
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
Modi and Adani: the old friends laying waste to India’s environment
India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?
Modi and Trump avoid climate change tension on state visit
Trade and migration are dominated the Indian prime minister’s visit to the White House, with differences on the Paris Agreement side-stepped
‘Nobody wants to be part of a dying culture’: Reddit on the end of coal
Donald Trump wants to revive the coal industry. But Redditors from declining US coal towns say their families need a future rather than a return to the past
Indians want ‘jugaad’ not ‘climate justice’, study shows
The language of self-sufficiency chimes better with Indian citizens than blaming the rich world for global warming, workshops by Climate Outreach find
End of coal: Failure to see it coming will hurt miners most
History shows governments that don’t anticipate and make provisions for the decline of coal burden communities for generations
US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change
The US said climate change had “a range of implications for the effective enjoyment of human rights”, in a departure from recent diplomacy and Trump’s rhetoric
Climate Weekly: Norway sends Brazil an Amazon warning
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Norway rebukes Brazil’s Temer over Amazon deforestation
Norway’s environment minister Vidar Helgesen warns that assault on forest protection jeopardises aid payments to Brazil through the Amazon Fund
Planned gas investments will blow 1.5C climate target, say analysts
Report by Climate Action Tracker warns that overly bullish gas demand forecasts will lead to stranded assets or an unsafe future climate
Women’s co-op dairy in Kenya breaks agricultural glass ceiling
Raising cattle instead of selling firewood and charcoal is empowering women and allowing trees to grow back in a denuded part of rural Kenya
Indian manufacturers eye cleaner coolants to meet air con demand
Following a global deal in Kigali to phasedown HFCs, a class of potent warming gases used in refrigeration, Indian industry is developing cleaner alternatives
Brazil’s Temer vetoes rollback of Amazon forest protections
Brazilian president blocks the deregulation of 1.4m acres, under international pressure, but a new bill seeks to open Amazon forests to farming and mining
Al Gore likens climate movement to suffrage and abolition of slavery
Gore says Trump’s withdrawal from Paris agreement is akin to resistance faced by other great moral movements
Trump-era climate resistance, from a beachside in Rhode Island
States claiming climate leadership will be held to account by local groups like Keep Rhode Island Beautiful, fighting against fossil fuel developments
Australia: new climate policy, same old politics
A major review of Australian climate policy has been compromised by the malignant politics that has sent Australia to the back of the international pack