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Arctic summit and interim talks heat up climate agenda

CRIB NOTES 31 AUG – 4 SEP: US president Barack Obama heads to Alaska, while climate negotiators meet in Bonn

BLOG: US president Barack Obama is heading to the Glacier meet in Alaska on Monday, but what is it and why does it matter?

NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks

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NEWS: Developing country was hailed for early climate pledge, but the Senate is being slow to sign off crucial renewables law

ANALYSIS: As politicians converge on substantive issues, interim talks next week must address the legal structure of a global deal

COMMENT: If politics of pollution continue to trump rights of those most exposed to climate change, UN summit could be explosive

NEWS: As leaders meet in Vienna to discuss closer cooperation, they must address the energy transition, argues CAN Europe

NEWS: Shifting rainfall patterns and rising populations could drive conflict in many countries, warns World Resources Institute

NEWS: Country is set to miss its “inadequate” 2030 emissions target due to Liberal leader’s attack on green regulation, say analysts

BLOG: From Cuzco to Andhra Pradesh, crop growers and livestock owners are feeling the impacts of shifting weather patterns

NEWS: Scientists form new team to address big uncertainties in the pace of future changes to ice sheets and the ocean

ANALYSIS: Four experts break down the German chancellor’s trip, which tackled Brazil’s low carbon future and the Paris summit

NEWS: Shanghai stock market crash will have rippling impacts on emissions, the green economy and Paris negotiations

NEWS: Model based on game theory could boost cooperation between countries on emissions cuts, say researchers

NEWS: Mesquite 210MW project soon to be overtaken by Indian and Chinese mega-arrays, as cheap solar panels compete with coal

COMMENT: A new fund is aiming to cut emissions from bad land management and improve food, energy and water security

COMMENT: Government is ignoring the people hardest hit by global warming with an unambitious and insincere national pledge

NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory