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Brazil minister calls out emerging economies over weak climate pledges

NEWS: Izabella Teixeira describes Singapore, South Korea climate plans as ‘inexcusable’ compared with ‘ambitious’ Brazil proposal

NEWS: Fears that emission reductions could drop off the agenda post Paris are driving support behind an early assessment of global carbon cuts

NEWS: Recently annointed prime minister is defending mine expansion plans, to the ire of Pacific neighbours and climate campaigners

NEWS: Influential finance body is mainstreaming climate concerns in move that could spotlight threats to oil exporters, say experts

NEWS: President Joko Widodo ends state visit as forest fire crisis engulfs new administration, but wins new US aid

NEWS: Andrzej Duda says he wants to see impact of treaty’s second phase on economy in decision that sparks anger in developing world

NEWS: Obama administration reportedly gets Japan on board to phase out controversial coal export credits

NEWS: Heir to British throne asks investors if they will be ‘future takers’ or ‘future makers’ at City of London event on stranded assets

NEWS: Decades after a nuclear bomb uprooted a small group of Pacific islanders, global warming could make them homeless yet again

NEWS: It is in the interests of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to back global action on climate change, study shows

NEWS: Diplomats strike ‘breakthrough’ deal to halt degradation of world’s terrain from 2030, but US$30bn price tag looms large

NEWS: Plan B does not exist says France’s top climate diplomat, urging envoys to accelerate work on new text for global pact

ANALYSIS: Opposition bid to renegotiate bloc’s 2030 package dismissed as ‘posturing’ as voters set to dump government, analysts say

NEWS: Island off tip of southern India wants reimbursing for the $420m it plans to spend by 2025 on warding off extreme weather

NEWS: US will deliver the US$3 billion promised to help poor countries go green despite Republican opposition, says top official

NEWS: Middle Eastern petropower aims for 24% clean energy by 2021, but sets no emissions target in climate pledge

NEWS: Developing countries are pulling together at interim climate talks in a last push before December’s Paris summit

NEWS: Planned dirty power plants will wipe out clean energy gains, says Climate Action Tracker, jeopardising an already weak emissions target

NEWS: Academics expect weak language on compensating victims of global warming, but agreement on a long-term global emissions target

NEWS: ExxonMobil, Shell and BP’s bullish energy use projections are based on dodgy assumptions, say analysts at Carbon Tracker