Climate change summit creates world of its own

Paris has put on a big show for COP21, but real business happens behind closed doors

The climate dilemma: To fight or befriend fossil fuel industry

Links between governments and business challenged by activists

It’s all in the detail: time for hardball talks on climate change

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COP21 organisers confident of getting agreement

Foreign and environment ministers have made progress towards a climate change accord

Concern plans to limit climate change do not go far enough

UN report says current goals leave a need for steeper and more expensive emissions cuts after 2030

Climate talks: Is the planet to be saved or doomed?

With just four months until COP 21, negotiations plod on but the public are mobilising

Unique consultation brings climate down to the citizens

Today people from 80 countries will join the largest ever global debate on climate change

Climate change road map after marathon negotiations

Sleepless delegates end Lima talks with foundations for major agreement next year

Lima climate talks ‘must deliver’, says Ban Ki-moon

UN secretary-general calls on rich countries to pledge money to UN Green Climate Fund

Climate funds financed coal power plants in Indonesia

NGOs call for tougher rules to stop money going to environmentally harmful projects

Global warming makes 2014 likely to be hottest on record

Lima forum hears the WMO stress that ‘there is no standstill in global warming’

Progress was always going to come down to world’s two largest economies

Analysis: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says clear signal on emissions sent to private sector and financial markets

Workable global accord on climate needed as Bonn talks deliver little

‘Very ambitious agenda’ faces ministers at December’s UN climate summit in Lima

Climate talks in Bonn to lay groundwork for new deal

Elements of draft agreement ‘must be clear’ ahead of conference in Lima

Call to action now on climate to ensure global warming increase is curtailed below 2 degrees Celsius

Steps needed to pave deal on climate change emerging

Latest round of negotiations in Bonn enters its second week

IPCC report paints bleak picture of our future

UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contains little comfort on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

Call for action on climate change

Clocks tick faster on climate

Ministers arrive in Warsaw to break deadlock at UN climate conference

New report predicts CO2 emissions will reach record 36bn tonnes this year

Most of world’s coal reserves will have to stay underground, says UN climate chief

Industry faces a risk that cannot be ignored, Christiana Figueres warns in Warsaw

UN climate chief urged to withdraw from Warsaw coal conference

Christiana Figueres under fire for agreeing to speak at World Coal Association’s summit

Australian bush fires reignite climate change debate

Environment minister says fires ‘just a function of life Australia’

Global warming agreement still on course for 2015

Climate talks in Bonn end with groundwork laid for Warsaw summit in November, says Figueres

Africans condemn Russian ‘shenanigans’ at UN climate talks

Valiant efforts by talks chairman to secure agreement on agenda come to nothing

Two-thirds of energy sector will have to be left undeveloped, Bonn conference told

If world is to limit global warming we cannot burn all our fossil fuels, says International Energy Agency economist Fatih Birol

Severity of weather events bear out warnings of climatologists

Successful week of talks in Bonn looks towards finalising ‘dynamic’ climate deal in 2015

Consensus that agreement must be able to adapt to emerging science on climate

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