Climate Change News

EU publishes ‘ambitious, robust’ plan for Paris climate deal

WEEKLY WRAP: Brussels backs long term goal, regular reviews and offers hope of more climate finance in COP21 package

INTERVIEW: Yousef Meslmani, lead author of the last climate report from Damascus explains links between conflict and warming

NEWS: Notion temperatures paused between 1998-2013 dismantled by Stanford researchers in further blow to climate sceptics

COMMENT: If governments do not agree what is necessary to stay below the 2C threshold, will the Paris summit have been a failure?

NEWS: Top carbon emitter’s coal usage since 2000 has rocketed as data revisions lay bare faulty accounting, analysts suggest

NEWS: But with energy demand set to double, don’t expect that to scotch fossil fuels for decades, says Ben van Beurden

NEWS: Council report due Friday will stick to script but emphasise support for tough ambition mechanism to drive long term CO2 cuts

ANALYSIS: With power stations and urban infrastructure locking in emissions for decades, countries need a long term vision

NEWS: Environment chiefs told to work hard to secure global goals in Vatican meet days before bloc finalises Paris strategy

NEWS: Holidaymakers could desert north-African state as temperatures jump and rising sea-levels eat away seafront hotels

NEWS: Investors call on government to support renewables sector, which faces cash crisis as stock market woes intensify

BLOG: Olga Dobrovidova investigates the social and economic impacts of thawing permafrost in Russia’s remote Arctic towns

NEWS: Apollo project will clamour at UN summit for US$15 billion in renewable investment a year this decade to halt climate change

NEWS: British cuts to clean energy support have baffled financiers, says consultancy EY, while Santiago has a winning strategy

NEWS: Boeing, BMW, and EDF among 45 major companies whose green claims and pro-fossil fuel lobby group links don’t add up

NEWS: What will countries agree to at this December’s critical UN summit? Researchers are mapping the likely outcome

NEWS: Brussels has yet to account for ‘staggering’ 6 billion tonnes of carbon cuts in post-2020 target, CAN-Europe warns

NEWS: World’s top carbon polluters to sign declaration binding cities and states to a raft of green policies like carbon cuts

NEWS: Pathways to ensure world avoids 2C of warming should be outlined as part of a 2015 UN deal, says top French diplomat

NEWS: Great oceanic “lung” is again breathing in lots of CO2 from the atmosphere but scientists can’t say why or whether it will last