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Can California hit its climate change targets? Computer says yes
New model shows switch from coal to renewables is cheapest way for Western US to cut emissions.
US election: Climate experts react to Donald Trump’s victory
Trump is expected to cut spending on green energy and boost US production of fossil fuels, while pulling his country out of the Paris climate accord
British Airways plans to offset rising emissions by sprinkling crushed rocks
The airline will pay a UK company to carry out enhanced rock weathering, which speeds up natural carbon-absorbing processes
Mexico elects a climate scientist as president – but will politics temper her green ambition?
Incoming president Claudia Sheinbaum will need to break with the fossil fuel-friendly policies of close ally AMLO to drive forward climate action, analysts say
Seismic shifts are underway to find finance for loss and damage
The new UN fund can channel taxes and other innovative ways of raising money to pay for climate loss and damage – we just have to decide to apply them
World Bank climate funding greens African hotels while fishermen sink
Climate Home reveals that the World Bank Group has counted support for luxury hotels as climate finance, which experts say fails the most vulnerable
Biden misses chance to tackle “huge” US landfill emissions
Food and plants dumped into US landfills are rotting and warming the planet but “weak” regulations have not been improved
US and China promise cooperation on renewables and methane
After talks in Sunnyland, California, the US and China agreed to revive a bilateral working group on climate change
The US and China’s resurgent climate cooperation is a big deal
Even though we now have the Paris agreement, cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters, US and China, is still crucial
Saving the Three Basins means stopping fossil fuel expansion
Planned oil and gas blocks cover an area the size of France in the Brazilian Amazon
Why airlines are perfect targets for anti-greenwashing legal action
Airlines are proving perfect targets for anti-greenwashing litigation, due to their dubious advertising claims
At UN climate summit big polluters’ absence speaks volumes
While “ambitious” countries made few new announcements, the US, China, India and the UK had not offered enough to even sit in the room
‘First movers’ only: US, China, UK left off UN climate guestlist
Only five of the G20 major economies made the cut for Antonio Guterres’ Climate Ambition Summit in New York, despite pressure from big powers
Overshoot Commission calls for research into solar geoengineering
Dimming the sun could “complement” emissions cuts, says panel of leaders, while acknowledging concerns about the risks
Cooking the books: cookstove offsets produce millions of fake emission cuts
Projects in India linked to Enking, the self-proclaimed world’s largest carbon credits producer, have vastly overestimated climate benefits
The Overshoot Commission is talking about solar geoengineering. Not everyone thinks it should
Commission members, scientists and youth advisors are concerned the body is justifying techno-fixes to the climate crisis
Republicans’ anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions
Republicans are pressuring insurers out of climate coalitions but won’t change their pro-climate business decisions
Confusion surrounds China’s pledged climate finance towards the Global South
China is not obligated to provide financial aid but has pledged to “make available’ $3.1bn to other developing countries
Climate Weekly – US-China talks stall but survive
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Despite Taiwan and spy balloon tensions, China invites US for climate talks
China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua invited his US counterpart to China to discuss cooperation on tackling climate change