Latest climate change news
India considers twin-track climate plans towards UN deal
ANALYSIS: Insiders hint radical carbon cuts unlikely, with Delhi depending on global support to clean energy supply
Ocean acidification triggered mass extinctions 252 million years ago
NEWS: The biggest extinction ever known on Earth resulted from oceans turned acid by CO2, the main gas driving human-caused climate change today
Polar bears hit by twin threats of pollution and climate change
NEWS: Plastic waste, toxic pollutants and climate adding pressures on polar bears in Arctic say researchers
UN: Gold, timber and ivory plunder stokes Congo conflict
NEWS: Billion-dollar smuggling trade propping up rebel groups in war-torn east of vast African country, reveals report
India hostility to HFC phase-out thaws, submits plans to UN
NEWS: Analysts hail historic shift in tone as Modi government accepts need to radically cut use of “super greenhouse gases”
Climate deals make 2015 ‘biggest year since 1945’, says UN envoy
NEWS: Busy schedule to update Millennium Development Goals and finalise global CO2 pact make 2015 most important of post-war period, says Mary Robinson
Fracking: what is the British government trying to hide?
COMMENT: Decisions over the onshore drilling for gas and oil need to be taken with all the facts at our disposal, not pushed through Parliament in a rush
Investors urge US regulator to force action on climate risk
NEWS: Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Canadian Natural Resources are failing to consider threat to their business, warn investors worth US$2trn
Use fossil fuel subsidies for climate aid – World Bank envoy
INTERVIEW: Rachel Kyte says billions directed towards oil, gas and coal should be used to promote green economy
Figueres: National climate plans = “investment prospectuses”
NEWS: UN climate chief urges businesses to look for opportunities in countries’ contributions to a global climate deal
BP adopts climate risk proposal after shareholder vote
NEWS: Oil major agrees at AGM in London to analyse which of its assets could be stranded by curbs on greenhouse gas emissions
How can cities influence a global climate deal in Paris?
ANALYSIS: Cities are unlikely to get the formal recognition many crave at the UN climate talks, but they can make an impact
G7 stresses climate risks to fragile states
NEWS: Bloc of world’s top developed nations sets up working group to examine climate change’s potential to destabilise weak countries
Japan’s mooted climate target “inadequate” say analysts
NEWS: Tokyo’s investments in coal power will lock in emissions growth, experts warn, as it mulls climate plan for UN deal
How should the next UK government lead on climate change?
COMMENT: London should leverage its expertise on sustainable business models, technology and investment in lead up to UN climate summit in Paris
UK government in lawsuit over lax air standards
NEWS: Environmental lawyers ClientEarth take four-year legal battle to country’s top justices in ‘landmark’ case
Obama climate plan comes under fire in Capitol Hill hearing
NEWS: Republicans, oil-funded think tanks and climate contrarian scientists tell Congress US carbon cuts should be stopped
BP shareholders to vote on climate risk disclosure
NEWS: Oil major backs proposal to reveal threat climate action poses to its business plan, for approval at AGM on Thursday
Crowdsourcing the climate: Chile’s CO2 cutting plan nears fruition
INTERVIEW: Santiago government says it will take time on UN climate pledge, collating views of population before submission in June
World set for record droughts by 2050 – report
NEWS: US and the Mediterranean among parched regions projected for unprecedented dryness if heat-trapping gases keep rising through century