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Tackling climate not in Poland’s interest, says Duda

NEWS: New president warns Warsaw will push EU for more concessions on its greenhouse gas emissions and coal use

GUARDIAN: New analysis takes fuel quality into account for first time, but China is still world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases

ANALYSIS: Australia’s dash for coal threatens existing miners as well as the climate, argues The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss

NEWS: Climate change risk recognised as share price for commodities giant hits record low on first half earnings slump

NEWS: PM Modi billed ‘clean energy crusader’ ahead of regional forum, but must ‘lead from front’ on climate

NEWS: As energy system goes clean, it will become “more local, more human in scale and more digital”, says BNEF founder

NEWS: Industry is optimistic that demand will pick up but banking giant warns that without carbon capture technology it will struggle

ANALYSIS: Magnitude of poor countries’ billion-dollar green investment need emerges through climate pledges submitted to the UN

ANALYSIS: For decades fossil fuels were seen as a safe bet – until one simple study by a team of fund managers in 2011

NEWS: Fossil fuel giant must continue efforts to diversify economy away from oil, gas, International Monetary Fund says

NEWS: US presidential candidate tweet sets her apart from Barack Obama stance slammed as “hypocritical” by campaigners

NEWS: Islamic declaration on climate change calls on rich and oil producing states to lead according to religious principles

NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations

NEWS: Many plant species cannot migrate uphill fast enough to escape rising temperatures, scientists have found

NEWS: Extreme weather events linked to climate change represent a huge risk for Manila, but green groups say the government is embracing dirty energy

NEWS: Organisers say 1,000 activists got into RWE’s opencast lignite mine in Rhineland, Germany on Saturday and halted diggers

CRIB NOTES AUG 17-21: Commodities rout accelerates, OPEC poised to boost oil supply, UK slashes GHG emissions

ANALYSIS: Who will take the most prestigious climate science job in the world? RTCC investigates

NEWS: Levi Draheim joins 20 other youth activists in unusual legal challenge to US president Barack Obama

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