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Countries urged to start bargaining over negative emissions
There is an emerging consensus CO2 needs to be sucked out of the air to meet climate goals, but no discussion of which countries are responsible for acting
Why state action is no answer to bonfire of US climate rules
President Trump says states know better than federal government how to protect the environment, but history shows they are creative at ducking collective problems
Sri Lanka plans no new coal plants until at least 2037
Government electricity authority says coal’s impact on health and environment tipped balance in favour of a gas and renewable-focused future
Climate Weekly: Desert miracle or mirage?
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The tax-free shipping company that took control of a country’s UN mission
How the tiny, climate-threatened Marshall Islands came to be represented at UN shipping talks by a private company based in Virginia, 11,000km away
Calling China’s carbon market ‘ambitious’ shows how low the bar has fallen
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
Trump-era climate resistance, from a beachside in Rhode Island
States claiming climate leadership will be held to account by local groups like Keep Rhode Island Beautiful, fighting against fossil fuel developments
FORE! Trump’s Paris speech was an awful mishit
The golf-loving president says he will pull the US from the Paris agreement. The UN’s renewable energy chief explains why that’s dumb in terms he’d understand
EU-China: New ‘climate leaders’ are also enamoured of fossil fuels
Gas imports to Europe from the US and massive future coal burning in China undermine the rhetoric of the world’s new self-proclaimed climate spearheads
Donald Trump says US will leave Paris climate agreement
Donald Trump withdraws the US from 2015 Paris climate agreement, leaving the US standing almost alone against action on climate change
UN secretary general: ‘Get on board the climate train or get left behind’
As the US teeters on the brink of leaving the global climate process, António Guterres has implored all countries to stay the course or go alone into a “grey future”
EU climate laws undermined by Polish and Czech revolt, documents reveal
As the world looks to the EU for leadership on climate, eastern states are diluting laws supposed to guide Europe toward its carbon reduction targets
Climate Weekly: Trump meets the G7
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Kenya signs China deal for coal plant beside Unesco site
Government assessment contains “grossly insufficient detail” about impact on world heritage site, said campaigners, who fear deal will prejudice an ongoing legal case
Small-scale renewables cheapest for rural Africa, says Dutch report
Africa’s quest for full access to electricity needs governments to support small, off-grid projects that are typically disregarded by investors
France set for ‘massive’ renewables boom under president Macron
Emmanuel Macron’s picks for prime minister and environment minister support rapid expansion of clean energy
EU countries have brought in $1bn of coal subsidies since Paris
In the shift to renewables, several member states are paying coal generators to be available for back-up power
Have Chinese CO2 emissions really peaked?
We are really bad at predicting Chinese emissions. Why do we think we know what happens next?
Executive disorder: Trump’s climate policies bid goodbye to reality
Despite the rhetoric, US president Donald Trump’s irrational climate order will fail to benefit the miners he has championed
Trump scraps Obama climate plan, undermining international trust
The US is becoming a “rogue state” as it backslides on hard-fought global pact, say international observers