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All eyes on China’s 13th Five-Year Plan for energy
Leaked documents preview China’s plans for energy policy over the next five years
Climate Change and Energy
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Caption: Guy Edwards from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab speaking at the Wilson Center, Washington DC (image: Wilson Center).
Powerful ‘dirty’ ministries are hurting Latin America’s climate aims
Courting Chinese investment to develop high-carbon sectors has big long-term costs, experts say
Caption: Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia in 2013 left around 600,000 people homeless (image: EU/ECHO, Arlynn Aquino)
Climate change loss and damage, here and now
Despite governments’ resistance to the idea, loss and damage due to climate change is widespread
Caption: Decorating trash carts is a way of drawing attention to the vital work of informal waste pickers (image: Pimp my carroça).
Pimp my… trash cart?
Brazilian graffiti artists’ support for invisible recyclers can become a global movement
Caption: The Himalayas are heating up much faster than the polar regions
Weatherman learns to warn, but must do better
Nations around the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region need to share data
Caption: The Spegazzini glacier in the Los Glaciares national park, Argentina. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is under threat from a hydropower development, local conservationists say (photo credit: TomaB)
UNESCO report overlooks vulnerable World Heritage Sites
New report on the impacts of climate change and tourism neglects key sites
Caption: China Development Bank (above) has led China’s massive surge in overseas development lending (image: O/ Wikimedia Commons)
China becomes world’s biggest development lender
China’s increasing weight as a multilateral lender carries major risks, says new report
Caption: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the 2016 Climate Action Summit in Washington DC (photo: Fabiola Ortiz).
Towards the decarbonisation of the global economy
Big emitters can cut carbon by cooperating with private sector and scientists, experts say
Caption: New interim Brazilian president Michel Temer watering trees. Under his watch, Brazil’s congress is expected to approve a law weakenening environmental protection (image: Michel Temer/ Flickr)
Brazil prepares to roll back green laws
Amidst the impeachment process, Brazil’s Congress is set to dismantle environmental protection laws
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Patricia Espinosa to be next UN climate chief
New UNFCCC head is Mexican diplomat credited with restoring negotiations after Copenhagen fiasco