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The New York Times magazine blames ‘human nature,’ but the true culprits have already been fingered

While we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground, America is giving the fossil fuel industry billions to extract more

Excluding unreliable land-use data, 2017 greenhouse emissions were again highest on record

The fault lies entirely with the GOP. Focus on fixing it, not laying blame where it doesn’t belong

Australia sells South Korea $6bn of coal a year, so Canberra unease over the governor’s anti-coal message is unsurprising

Until Pruitt deleted the EPA climate webpages.Last week, a Las Vegas news station interviewed Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The interviewer brought up the topic of climate change, and virtually everything Pruitt...

The benefits of clean growth lay at the heart of our industrial strategy. But we must be at the forefront of the effort to keep global temperature rises at manageable levels

New alliance launched at Bonn climate talks hopes to signal the end of the dirtiest fossil fuel that kills 800,000 people a year with air pollution

German chancellor, UN secretary general, Emmanuel Macron and others urge world’s leaders to succeed in their negotiations in Bonn

Report shows around £15bn of assets worldwide have been shifted away from coal companies in the past two years as concern over climate risk rises

The rise would end three years of flat carbon emissions – a ‘huge leap backward’ say some scientists, while others say the longer term trend is more hopeful

One of US’s only public events, originally billed as promoting clean energy, has since been changed to favour coal and nuclear power

Emissions trading benefits big polluters, say Maxime Combes et al. And the UK Treasury continues to subsidise certain highly polluting diesel engines, say Matthew Farrow et alWhile the EU is extolling its “climate leadership”...

Exclusive: Billionaire’s campaign has seen half of US coal plants close in six years. Now he is targeting Europe and beyond to fight climate change and air pollution

Not far from the UN climate talks taking place in Bonn, activists frustrated with slow progress by governments are turning up the heat at the Hambach opencast mine, highlighting Germany’s failure to live up to its green...