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Investors worth US$2trn back green bonds at NY Climate Week
NEWS: Pension funds, insurers and asset managers show an appetite for low risk, climate-friendly investments
400,000 people on NY streets trump ‘pledges’ by Cameron and Obama
COMMENT: Sunday’s climate march created a tipping point that leaders failed to achieve inside the UN headquarters, says Jamie Henn
Strong EU 2030 package needed for global climate deal – Gambia
INTERVIEW: Europe’s 2030 climate and energy package is critical to a strong deal in Paris, says negotiator for least developed countries
Knock knock. Who’s there? Climate change
BLOG: A series of playful posters and podcasts aims to change your relationship with the changing climate
Green Climate Fund receives $1.3 billion in new pledges
NEWS: France leads the way with $1 billion pledge to green bank, while developing countries also make surprise contributions
Strong Paris deal needed to make carbon pricing work – analysts
NEWS: Carbon markets are only as good as the political goals that underpin them, say analysts in response to New York pledge
For small islands states, the renewables revolution is already here
COMMENT: Island states are may be small, but they’re powerful when it comes to renewables, write three foreign ministers
New York summit renews confidence in climate action
ANALYSIS: From 400,000 marching in the streets of New York to the affirmations of world leaders at the UN, there is a renewed confidence in climate action
10 best leaders’ pledges at the UN summit
ANALYSIS: World leaders delivered around 16 hours of speeches yesterday. But who actually delivered meaningful pledges?
Costa Rica is green and growing despite climate concerns
COMMENT: Costa Rica is vulnerable to climate change but benefits from green policies, writes environment minister
Coal trains stopped in UK and Poland protests
NEWS: Greenpeace activists “occupy” coal train in the UK to highlight climate dangers, while Polish miners block Russian imports
UN climate summit: Mandela’s widow says leaders lack courage
NEWS: Graca Machel, member of the Elders group, attacks world leaders for weak promises at New York summit
As it happened: World leaders pledge climate action in New York
Ban Ki-moon’s summit has arrived and it is over to world leaders to show their commitment to tackling climate change
Liberia and Norway pledge to tackle deforestation
NEWS: New partnership sees Ebola-stricken country pledge to take on economic costs of reducing deforestation
Society has “mobilised” against climate change – Hollande
NEWS: The French president said leaders must “define a new economy for the world” as they head towards a global climate deal in Paris next year
7 areas of climate action at the UN climate summit
NEWS: UN summit sees pledges on forests, food security, finance and more. We provide an overview of some key promises
Marshall Islands poet: “We deserve to do more than just survive”
BLOG: Full transcript of poem read out today at the UN climate summit by Marshall Islands writer Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Kiribati president: My people are the polar bears of the Pacific
NEWS: President Anote Tong calls for world leaders to pay attention to sinking island at today’s historic climate summit in New York
Tensions rise as New York prepares for UN climate summit
NEWS: Empire State Building glows green as protestors and business make their case for decarbonisation
Paris 2015 climate deal must have legal force – Fabius
NEWS: The chair of next year’s critical UN climate talks, Laurent Fabius, tells business leaders it must produce a legally binding deal