Australia
Australia coal faces tough future warns HSBC
Monday’s top 5: Oz coal could be ‘stranded’, US states call for climate ambition, oil chief dismisses Keystone XL, Cambridge unveils ‘greenest supercomputer’
Russia refuses to allow Greenpeace 30 home for Christmas
Friday’s top 5: Greenpeace detained indefinitely; Australian emissions fall by 0.1%; Bioenergy and CCS could keep temperatures below 2C warming target
Obama appoints Keystone opponent Podesta as climate advisor
Wednesday’s top five: Obama appoints John Podesta, coal exports threaten Great Barrier Reef, John Kerry to visit Philippines city of Tacloban
Protests halt Chevron fracking operations in Romania
Monday’s top 5: Chevron postpones fracking operations, Australian fire service warned it should double numbers, and Japan signals return to nuclear
London aims for £1.85m per year saving with LED roll-out
UK capital set for largest energy efficient road lighting project in country, installing 35,000 street lamps by 2016
Lord Browne: Fracking will not bring down energy bills
Friday’s top 5: Lord Browne says fracking will not decrease energy bills, China to raise coal threshold, Oil drilling in Pechora Sea to begin in 2014, Australian bushfires linked to Indian Ocean temperature increase, Big six told to hold price increase
Climate Action Tracker: world on course for 3.7C warming by 2100
Authors warn of “major risk of a further downward spiral in ambition, a retreat from action”
Developing nations blame Australia for loss and damage talks ‘walkout’
Delegation accused of wearing t-shirts and “gorging on snacks” during critical UN talks
Yvo de Boer: ‘Australia should send minister to Warsaw talks’
The Guardian: Yvo de Boer stresses importance of COP19 climate change talks as it emerges Australia’s environment minister will not attend
Netherlands take Russia to international court over Greenpeace dispute
Morning summary: Moscow refuses to attend international tribunal on Greenpeace activists; Australia will have no government minister at UN climate talks; and levels of greenhouse gases in atmosphere reach record high
Global warming likely to exacerbate El Nino effects – study
Morning summary: Australia to face more extreme weather say researchers; Newspapers in Australia cast doubts on climate change; Illegal gold mining in Peru increased Amazon deforestation by 400%
Australia should adopt ‘25% emissions reduction target’
Report calls Australia’s 5% target inadequate but government has refused further funding to increase this
US Treasury ends international funding for coal-fired power plants
Morning summary: US announces end to international coal funding; three US states sign global warming agreement with British Columbia; and Australian Climate Change Authority criticises government targets
Australia should cut emissions “25% by 2020”
Morning summary: Australia has used two-thirds of its carbon budget, Poland could cut coal use 50%, Ethiopia opens Africa’s largest wind farm
Indigenous Australians could suffer most from climate change
Morning summary: Heatwave-related deaths in Sydney to triply; El Nino will be more intense, Australian government forced to pay millions if carbon tax is scrapped
Australia’s Climate Council generates $1m from crowdfunding
Morning summary: Australia Climate Council raises $1m; Fiji supports legally binding climate deal; Alaskan student sues state for failing to address climate change
Australia Climate Commission starts fightback against Abbott cuts
Climate Commission is resurrected as independent body as Australian PM begins regressive action on climate change
Australia resurrects axed Climate Commission as independent body
Morning summary: Private investors create Climate Council in Australia; governments meet to finalise IPCC; and efforts get underway to curb aviation emissions
Anger at Australia decision to dump climate change minister
Morning summary: Tony Abbott’s move to ditch the climate change and science ministries has met with heavy criticism down under
Direct Action: should we give Tony Abbott’s climate plan a chance?
Anthony Hobley from Norton Rose Fulbright asks if the new Coalition’s Direct Action Plan is an end to Climate Action or simply a case of clever re-branding?