Climate Change News

UN climate chief expects national plans to cover up to 80% of emissions before Paris

INTERVIEW: Christiana Figueres tells RTCC Brazil and India will soon come on board with climate plans, but admits more ambition required

NEWS: Major developed economies exploring compromise options on contentious issue of loss and damage at negotiations in Bonn

NEWS: Transfer public support for polluting products into green growth and protection from extreme weather, says CAN Europe

NEWS: Lima billed as venue for proposal to help developing countries invest in green energy and prepare for extreme weather

NEWS: CalPERS and CalSTRS will sell up to US$240 million in mine holdings after lawmakers’ decision, in win for campaigners

NEWS: World’s fourth most populous country pledge slightly builds on 2020’s voluntary goal, but details remain unclear

NEWS: Seven days of negotiations remain before Paris summit to finalise global pact, but what leaders will sign is unclear

NEWS: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, riven by the war on terror and extreme floods, has ambitious plans for hydropower and forests

NEWS: As more people live in cities, researchers find denser settlements with more green spaces are best for wellbeing

NEWS: Search giant and researchers map emerging clusters of tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa

NEWS: Countries must pledge deeper emissions cuts as early as 2025 to hold temperature rise within safe levels, says Climate Action Tracker

NEWS: Nine companies including Glencore, Rio Tinto and BP targeted over membership of Brussels trade body Business Europe

NEWS: Lord Browne-led panel to present fossil fuel industry with set of plans in November on how it can contribute to UN climate deal

NEWS: Ban Ki-moon to chair closed-door climate change session on sidelines of 2015 General Assembly, as fears grow over Paris deal progress

NEWS: Ministers are resisting judges’ orders to set tougher greenhouse gas emissions cuts, despite a popular campaign

NEWS: US-led Glacier summit warns of climate impacts in sensitive region, but China and India do not sign declaration

NEWS: “This is a solvable problem if we start now,” US president says at close of Glacier summit in Anchorage, Alaska

NEWS: Lack of climate finance and inadequate carbon cuts headline concerns for developing countries at Bonn talks

COMMENT: President Obama spoke of his daughters at the Glacier meeting in Alaska, but it was a cab driver whose words hit home

NEWS: Yvo de Boer questions the French presidency approach of inviting world leaders to launch the two-week conference