How China is reinforcing its climate targets for 2020
This week’s hotly anticipated five-year plan for energy shows stronger ambition for shifting from coal to cleaner sources
Into the abyss: oil states face turmoil as climate policies bite
A transition to green energy sources threatens the stability of oil-rich states like Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia
Can Saudi Arabia’s regime survive in a greener world?
The race is on for Saudi Arabia to find new sources of income before the oil age peters out
Why India’s waste pickers are key to a fair climate deal
Low-carbon measures could increase urban poverty if a clean transition is not carefully managed, research from IIED suggests
The age of Xi: will China flex its climate muscles in 2017?
Beijing’s policies have seen China invest heavily in renewables and support the UN’s first major climate pact – but without US cover it will face new scrutiny this year
Trump’s climate impact could be ‘vanishingly small’
Trump has called climate change a hoax, but what’s truly scary, scientists tell ProPublica, is how much larger the problem is than one American president.
Farewell 2016: climate highlights from our expert panel
Scientists, policymakers and civil society leaders from France, Germany, Bangladesh, Spain, the US and UK identify their highlights of 2016
What Exxon’s 2017 energy outlook tells us about Rex Tillerson
Whether or not he wants it to, Donald Trump’s pick for US secretary of state expects the Paris climate deal to fail
2016 mapped: around the world in top climate stories
Look back on a year of weird weather and clean energy breakthroughs around the world
Chilling in Kigali: how the world sealed a climate deal for fridges
In the first in our 2016 in review series, Chatham House’s Duncan Brack reflects on the UN deal to curb HFC use that was agreed in October
Mark Carney, the unlikely climate champion
Former Goldman Sachs banker is calmly, steadily steering the financial sector in a greener direction
Climate change in 17 tweets
Leading UK climate scientist illustrates a year of temperature rises, ice melt, record-breaking months and long-term trends in series of tweets
Risky business: G20 panel to order climate stress tests
Donald Trump’s US election win may damage the Paris climate deal, but climate risk reporting rules for businesses could radically change the investment landscape
Iconic Kruger game park faces bleak climate future
Recent drought gives a taste of things to come for Kruger National Park, South Africa, as global warming outpaces species’ ability to adapt
Catch 22: when climate change *prevents* migration
Research shows those hit hardest by climate change can’t afford to move, supporting the call for more and better adaptation
Gore, DiCaprio and the media: tools in Trump’s climate deception
Meetings with Gore and DiCaprio acted as a smokescreen while Trump prepared to appoint EPA chief who will tear up US climate policy
Full circle: 33 hours in Australian climate policy
It took just over a day for the suggestion of a carbon price to be stamped out by right-wing MPs who hold the prime minister in their thrall
Climate change is testing southern Africa water agreements
Stronger and fairer water agreements will be needed to prevent conflicts in southern Africa as the climate changes
Brazil needs new coalitions to halt forest clearance surge
The latest data confirms an increase in tree-cutting, including in the most valuable carbon-rich areas of Amazon rainforest
EU reinforces climate plans as Trump preps policy bonfire
The latest wodge of climate policy from Brussels won’t set the world alight, but maybe that’s ok