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Indonesia climate pledge hazy on deforestation – analysts
NEWS: Jakarta is fudging future emissions from tree-cutting and stripped peatland amid a coal spree, says Climate Action Tracker
Pathway to $100bn emerging ahead of Paris climate summit
ANALYSIS: Cash demands from developing countries reinserted into text during UN talks in Bonn, as World Bank official hails progress
Climate takes low profile as Xi Jinping visits UK
ANALYSIS: Britain is wooing China’s president for contentious investment in nuclear plants, but the real opportunities are elsewhere
Disney, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s back White House climate drive
NEWS: Leading multinationals sign up to Obama climate pledge as president braces for GOP showdown over plans for COP21 Paris deal
Canada ousts Stephen Harper in boon for climate
NEWS: Justin Trudeau election victory braces Canada for a climate policy refit, but observers hesitant to predict major overhauls
Germany, Ethiopia, Mexico leaders back carbon pricing
NEWS: Six heads of state are endorsing a World Bank campaign to make polluters pay, while Paris climate text ignores the subject
UN climate text swells as G77 flexes muscles in Bonn
ANALYSIS: Developing countries add more than 50 elements to UN’s draft Paris deal, complaining of bias towards richer nations
Norway’s oil-rich capital first to divest from fossil fuels
NEWS: Oslo “takes responsibility for climate” in ridding $9 billion pension fund of coal, oil and gas investments say surging Greens
US, EU ‘avoiding fair share’ of climate effort
NEWS: Developed world should deepen emissions cuts five times or more by 2030, say civil society groups, plus support poor countries
Cutting through the legal fog of a UN climate pact
COMMENT: A Paris summit is set to produce a treaty that will need ratification. How can it be best framed to get reluctant countries on board?
Loans or grants for climate finance?
COMMENT: Confusion reigns over the right format for cash to tackle climate impacts. Resolve this quickly, or the UN-backed Green Climate Fund will falter
Small islands urge progress in Bonn, cite Philippines Typhoon Koppu
NEWS: Alliance of vulnerable states remind weak UN climate deal might be “worse than no deal at all” as session gets off to rocky start
Developing countries demand additions to slimmed-down climate text
NEWS: In a heated start to talks in Bonn, G77 + China group accuses co-chairs of producing an unbalanced working document
Canada primed for climate comeback, says Harper foe
ANALYSIS: Election win for frontrunner Liberals would restore reputation battered by incumbent, says ex-opposition leader Stephane Dion
Bonn set for fireworks as UN climate talks resume
ANALYSIS: Developing countries cry foul ahead of week of negotiations in Germany – claiming finance, loss and damage have been wiped from draft deal
Weekly wrap: Tubiana outlines Paris goals, oil CEOs front up, 2C at risk
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Brexit: what impact on the climate?
ANALYSIS: Britain is to vote in a referendum on its membership of the EU by 2017. Where could that leave its climate policy? We asked five experts
Green Climate Fund directors warn it faces staffing crisis
NEWS: Poor pay and remote location in South Korea are driving away potential employees says GCF, as it prepares to sign off on first funding projects
Oil majors climate declaration avoids targets, carbon pricing
NEWS: Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total and seven other companies voice support for 2C warming limit, but lack concrete plans
US freezing out potent HFCs with fresh curbs
NEWS: Obama administration and businesses announce cuts to super-warming gases ahead of ozone layer treaty meet