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Obama heads to Arctic to hammer climate message
NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks
Mexico’s dragging energy reforms threaten green reputation
NEWS: Developing country was hailed for early climate pledge, but the Senate is being slow to sign off crucial renewables law
Climate negotiators urged to up pace at Bonn session
ANALYSIS: As politicians converge on substantive issues, interim talks next week must address the legal structure of a global deal
EU should pressure Western Balkans to phase out coal – report
NEWS: As leaders meet in Vienna to discuss closer cooperation, they must address the energy transition, argues CAN Europe
Australia ‘has world’s biggest climate policy gap’ under Abbott
NEWS: Country is set to miss its “inadequate” 2030 emissions target due to Liberal leader’s attack on green regulation, say analysts
NASA: Sea level rise is accelerating as ice melts
NEWS: Scientists form new team to address big uncertainties in the pace of future changes to ice sheets and the ocean
What does China’s Black Monday mean for the climate?
NEWS: Shanghai stock market crash will have rippling impacts on emissions, the green economy and Paris negotiations
‘Targeted punishment’ strategy mooted to prevent climate free-riding
NEWS: Model based on game theory could boost cooperation between countries on emissions cuts, say researchers
Why restoring degraded land is crucial to the climate
COMMENT: A new fund is aiming to cut emissions from bad land management and improve food, energy and water security
Peruvian relatives of murdered forest defenders win land title
NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory
8 ways to cut the carbon footprint of your dinner
BLOG: From farm to plate, food accounts for up to a third of global emissions – so how can you limit the impact?
Bolivia plans anti-capitalist climate summit to sway Paris
NEWS: South American firebrand Evo Morales is organising an October meeting to discuss capitalism’s destruction of the environment
What will a decent climate finance package in Paris look like?
ANALYSIS: It’s one of the major bottlenecks to a robust agreement in Paris. We asked six experts what’s in store
Russia, Ukraine dodgy carbon offsets cost the climate – study
NEWS: UN-backed scheme increased greenhouse gas emissions by 600Mt CO2e, researchers have found, due to accounting flaws
India primed for renewables spurt in climate plan
NEWS: World’s fourth-largest carbon polluter could target 300GW of clean capacity by 2030 in anticipated pledge to UN deal
South Africa accused of weakening emissions target
NEWS: WWF warns emerging economy is manipulating baseline data to lower ambition in draft contribution to UN climate deal
The Emissions Factor Podcast: Is optimism ahead of Paris justified?
PODCAST: This week Ed King is joined by Richard Black, Farhana Yamin and Lisa Friedman – plus an interview with Connie Hedegaard
DRC climate plan ‘leaves laggards with no excuse’
INTERVIEW: If conflict-riven state can forge a carbon-cutting strategy then so can others says Kinshasa’s lead climate diplomat
Brazil backs long term zero carbon goal as Merkel visits
NEWS: President Dilma Rousseff declared support for G7 stance on emissions phase-out after receiving German leader in Brasilia
EU climate chief outlines criteria for Paris success
NEWS: World must agree to zero emissions trajectory by 2100 says Miguel Arias Canete, or 2015 deal will lack credibility and impact