Greenhouse gas emissions
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Rich countries need to give more to plug huge funding gap and help developing nations adapt to drought, flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change, says UN report
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This week delegates and activists began arriving in the Peruvian capital for the COP20 UN climate talks, where nations will negotiate a draft text on a climate deal to be agreed in Paris next year
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John Abraham: A new study finds that cutting emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases is the key to tackling global warming
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Climate talks in Lima can save the Amazon rainforest by recognising rights of its best protectors, writes Dan Collyns
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These striking images capture the effects of extreme weather around the world in 2014, a year that saw record average temperatures from Australia to Europe
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Record average temperatures highlight the urgent need to agree a deal on emissions at the UN climate change talks in Lima
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Unless December turns unusually cold, 2014 will beat 1995, 2006, 1990 and 2011 as the warmest year on record
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Group of least-developed nations at UN climate summit say rich counties should do ‘substantially more’ to cut emissions
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Team examines tens of thousands of genes to identify those that allow coral to adapt to high carbon dioxide levels and more acidic oceans
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Global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than transport but fear of a consumer backlash is preventing action, says Chatham House report
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German Federal Environment Agency chief and IEA director predict more firms to switch to renewable energy generation
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Michael Jacobs: Avoiding dangerous climate change depends on the strength of emissions reduction targets countries collectively adopt. And this remains a major concern
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EU says mandatory carbon emissions cuts should be set for all countries, whereas US wants individual countries to be free to adjust the scale and pace of reductions
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As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a binding treaty in Paris in 2015, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation
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COP20 is a forum for regional green policies not just global climate targets
Julian Hunt in London and Joy Pereira in Kuala LumpurWith Latin America already hit by climate change, talks in Lima are the perfect chance to discuss local green programmes, write Julian Hunt and Joy Pereira
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Failure will condemn developing countries to unchecked climate change for another generation, and the poorest countries will be worst hit, writes John Vidal
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Hopes rise for global warming deal after US-China carbon commitments inject much-needed momentum into Peru talks
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Time is running out for agreeing legal framework for emissions cuts, EU official warns
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Indonesia’s new president announces plans to protect rainforest and peatlands, signalling a new direction for country with worst rate of deforestation in the world
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Ships will have to start monitoring emissions from 2018, in a first step towards curbing growing pollution from the sector
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Watering down the Climate Act would be headline-chasing populism
Lord Puttnam and Tim YeoLord Puttman and Tim Yeo: British politicians need the cross-party, long-term vision that made the Climate Act possible six years ago, if they are to stay the course on climate change -
But ‘geoengineers’ say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures
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Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to £149bn a year, says EU agency report
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Guardian Australia: But party’s environment policy platform includes no commitment to new national park that could save Leadbeater’s possum
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World Bank will only fund coal projects in cases of ‘extreme need’ due to the risk climate change poses to ending world poverty, says Jim Yong Kim
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International talks in Paris in 2015 could see the world’s nations agree to limit global warming to a rise of 2C. Actually achieving that target will require huge commitments – not least by developed nations
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Toyota is betting on its hydrogen fuel cell Mirai as the next generation of green car, but they face a hard sell to replicate popularity of their top-selling Prius
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Damian Carrington: In a passionately delivered address to the Green Alliance, the Labour Party leader says global warming is an issue of equality, as it hits the poor abroad and at home
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A UN report says Australia and just three other nations will not meet their pledge to reduce emissions by 2020
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Thirty nations meeting in Berlin pledge just short of $10bn target for fund to help developing countries deal with global warming
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Britain’s first ‘Bio-Bus’ powered entirely by human and food waste takes to the streets between Bath and Bristol
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Energy secretary Ed Davey warns against ‘little Englander’ approach as donation to UN’s Green Climate Fund announced
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Ed Davey: If the world’s poorest countries are to develop in a way that creates a sustabinable climate, richer countries have to help them
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‘Negative emissions’ are needed globally by second half of century to stave off dangerous climate change, say UN scientists
Brazil should take lead on climate, not just broker talks