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BLOG: From farm to plate, food accounts for up to a third of global emissions – so how can you limit the impact?

NEWS: Precision mapping of melting glaciers can help predict potentially calamitous effects on sea levels, say scientists

NEWS: South American firebrand Evo Morales is organising an October meeting to discuss capitalism’s destruction of the environment

NEWS: Pension funds and investment consultants are passive on climate risk and locked into short-termism, say researchers

ANALYSIS: It’s one of the major bottlenecks to a robust agreement in Paris. We asked six experts what’s in store

NEWS: UN-backed scheme increased greenhouse gas emissions by 600Mt CO2e, researchers have found, due to accounting flaws

NEWS: World’s fourth-largest carbon polluter could target 300GW of clean capacity by 2030 in anticipated pledge to UN deal

NEWS: WWF warns emerging economy is manipulating baseline data to lower ambition in draft contribution to UN climate deal

NEWS: Country’s 2020 emissions target will be “very expensive” to meet, says figure in recently elected government

COMMENT: Rising consumption of meat and dairy has a huge impact on global warming – yet the desire to address this is lamentable

PODCAST: This week Ed King is joined by Richard Black, Farhana Yamin and Lisa Friedman – plus an interview with Connie Hedegaard

NEWS: Record temperatures, heatwaves and a brewing El Nino are making this year one of the more unusual in recent history

INTERVIEW: If conflict-riven state can forge a carbon-cutting strategy then so can others says Kinshasa’s lead climate diplomat

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NEWS: President Dilma Rousseff declared support for G7 stance on emissions phase-out after receiving German leader in Brasilia

NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home

NEWS: Plans to tackle potent greenhouse gas emissions uploaded to global portal as oil industry takes first steps towards Paris deal

NEWS: World must agree to zero emissions trajectory by 2100 says Miguel Arias Canete, or 2015 deal will lack credibility and impact

NEWS: Hard-to-detect small-scale clearance of Amazon rainforest makes up half of country’s tree-cutting rate, says study

NEWS: State could be in “more or less permanent” drought by 2060s, researchers warn as four-year dry spell takes its toll