Climate Change News

Mapped: Around the world in climate change targets

BLOG: Use RTCC’s interactive map to find out how far countries around the world have pledged to reduce their emissions

BLOG: Know your BINGOs from your NAMAs? Worried about LULUCF? Let us guide you through the worst

NEWS: From a lawsuit in Boston to a “die-in” in London, campaigners are raising pressure on universities to drop fossil fuel ties

COMMENT: Chairman of UN’s IPCC climate science panel says governments must pay heed to warnings in latest AR5 report

NEWS: Contribution brings Green Climate Fund total up to US$9.7 billion, ahead of UN climate conference in Lima

INTERVIEW: Miguel Arias Canete on why 2C is still the goal, coal is not the answer and critics have got him wrong

COMMENT: India is looking for new allies, Peru wants to bring Latin Americans together and Europe needs to get its mojo back

ANALYSIS: For Russian diplomats, a year of sanctions and conflict will provide the backdrop to Lima talks. Will this be payback time?

NEWS: OPEC president warns new oilfields could be unsustainable as prices fall to 4-year low, while activists target Exxon Mobil

COMMENT: A 2015 carbon cutting deal needs a legal basis, argues Sebastian Oberthür, but it’s not clear what could be politically acceptable

NEWS: Head of Roman Catholic church says global warming is a “social justice” issue, confirms encyclical on environment due in 2015

BLOG: RTCC picks the cream of the crop to keep you updated with the inside information at the UN climate talks

ANALYSIS: The latest greenhouse gas emissions figures from rich countries show policies do work, but economics can change everything

COMMENT: Country commitments to a global agreement should be based on their domestic strengths

NEWS: Experts say cross-border links can make emissions cuts cheaper, but socialist states want to block market mechanisms

NEWS: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and predecessors Yvo de Boer and Michael Zammit Cutajar offer thoughts on Lima talks

NEWS: Coalition of 56 countries say technology needs more political support ahead of 2015 Paris agreement

INTERVIEWS: RTCC asks negotiators from France, Russia, Bangladesh and beyond what next week’s UN climate conference should deliver

NEWS: US special envoy for climate change spells out what his country hopes to achieve in the UN’s climate change deal

NEWS: Beijing plans to launch national carbon market in 2016 to be mature by 2020, says official