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China backs ‘revolutionary’ clean coal
NEWS: Environment minister promotes power station technology to cut pollution as China sets out five-year energy blueprint
China’s Five Year Plan to radically tighten air pollution targets
NEWS: China’s draft economic plan for the next five years contains new targets that will need to be met if the country is to solve its environmental crises
UN-backed green fund to wean major banks off fossil addiction
INTERVIEW: New alliance with HSBC and Credit Agricole takes flak from civil society, but GCF heads say finance giants are now part of transition away from fossil fuels
Deep decarbonisation: Obama’s greatest climate legacy?
ANALYSIS: US president will leave his successor with a low-carb present: A roadmap to slash US emissions 80% on 1990 levels by 2050
Clocking off: Can Wales’ steel heartland survive in a greener world?
LONG READ: A world of zero emissions signals huge upheavals for heavy industry. How might Britain’s last steel town fare later this century?
Is Brussels killing the Paris climate dream?
COMMENT: EU plans lock in weak ambition to 2030, undermining the review mechanism it fought for in December’s UN agreement
Reviving Hercules: Can carbon capture give British industry a future?
LONG READ: Megan Darby travels to Teesside, where locals hope a surge in green investment can save the region’s ailing industrial base
Yvo de Boer: Paris was a small step for mankind, a giant leap for man
COMMENT: Climate summit’s achievements were modest, but political writing is now on the wall writes former UN climate chief
Uruguay pushes 100% renewables, just don’t mention the cows
NEWS: South America’s clean energy poster child is skewering its fossil fuel use, but reducing emissions from its meat industry is tough
Apple launches $1.5bn green bond
NEWS: Technology giant is raising finance for renewable energy, greener materials and efficiency
Why the Paris climate deal doesn’t depend on the US
BLOG: With or without Washington, governments in developing countries are already taking steps to slash emissions and clean up their economies
Will US supreme court judge death save climate plan?
CRIB NOTES 15-19 FEB: Game on for Clean Power Plan, top climate scientists gather in DC, air pollution linked to 5.5 million deaths a year
BP admits it has repeatedly underestimated renewables
ANALYSIS: Oil major revises up forecast for solar, wind and hydro power by its biggest margin yet in 2016 annual energy outlook
Obama outlines ‘climate-smart economy’ vision in final budget
NEWS: US president plans to channel billions into clean energy, resilience and climate aid – if the Republican-dominated Congress will let him
US military to war game climate change threats
NEWS: Directive from Pentagon calls for climate focus at all levels of armed forces; urging commanders to prepare troops for operations in extreme conditions
No monkeying around: China state control threatens climate agenda
ANALYSIS: Beijing’s bold economic reform plans could speed emissions cuts – but can they coexist with a crackdown on free speech?
Leaky carbon markets cast shadow over EU steel says lobbyist
INTERVIEW: Pay-to-pollute rules in some countries, but not in others are ‘worst possible solution’, says industry head
Oil majors prepare for profit bloodbath
CRIB NOTES 1-5 FEB: BP and Shell results due, Tubiana named a champion, Bloomberg predict $12.5 trillion needed to back Paris, UN to debate loss and damage
As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning
BLOG: 2011 disaster survivors urge UK to ditch atomic plans: “Don’t consider Fukushima as something that could never never happen to you. It could.”
Top lobbyist says coal needs its own ‘Mission Innovation’
INTERVIEW: Despite climate concerns, hundreds of coal plants are being built worldwide. The World Coal Association argues governments should stump up for cleaner technology