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The media prefers positive stories to the traditional doom and gloom of climate coverage.
Climate change is predicted to hit Africa hard unless the continent puts in place adaptation plans.
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Africa needs to work on adaption strategies if it is to overcome the harmful effects of climate change.
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1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
Will fossil fuels soon be all at sea?
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Whatever the outcome of the COP21 Paris climate talks, climate change will result in assets becoming ‘stranded’.
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Things can change disturbingly quickly – just ask the people who once farmed the Sahara.
Severe floods in Chennai. How should developing countries hold richer countries to financial commitments to adapt to climate change?
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How to ensure rich countries will live up to their promises of money and carbon emissions cuts? Developing countries need to look to the Allies’ unified strategy in World War II.
The games begin: satirising Christmas consumerism outside a French shopping centre.
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The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
It can be hard to know how best to adapt to climate change.
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Projects to help people adapt to climate change are essential. But no one really knows how much to spend, or even how to tell which projects are working.
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There’s a huge gap between what India claims it can do, and what it’s actually doing to bring down emissions.
Saleemul Huq (left) says the world’s vision should be to help everyone with climate change - even the very poorest.
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A majority of countries want visionary action rather than pragmatism at the Paris climate talks, says the International Institute for Environment and Development’s Saleemul Huq.
Should goods from high-carbon countries be hit with an import tax?
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How to hit rogue countries where it really hurts – in the wallet.
Ahead of the Paris climate summit, protesters in the Philippines march for climate justice.
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A narrow debate of what countries should pay to respond to climate change obscures a bigger moral discussion that touches on economics, ethics and people’s relationship to the natural world.
Engie’s renewable energy installation outside the Paris climate conference.
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Companies in the fossil fuel business are coming up with ways to green their image - including sponsoring the Paris climate summit.
Coal consumption is down in China, slowing growth in global carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
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Despite robust global economic growth over the past two years, worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuels grew very little in 2014, and might even fall this year.
Planting trees is one way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere – but is limited if it competes with food production.
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To prevent dangerous climate change, it’s likely we’ll have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that’s looking less and less promising.
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Advertising takeovers and creative forms of disobedience are some of the few means left to contest who is allowed to maintain a public voice at COP21.
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A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (right) on the summit’s opening day.
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Australia has made several climate-themed announcements since the start of the Paris talks, but nothing that cuts to the heart of the climate issue.
Delegates might have to work late at COP21, but we can be confident a deal will be delivered by the weekend.
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Progress is being made at the Paris climate talks, as negotiators being to accept the limits of what can and can’t be delivered.
There is still lots of detail to be hammered out before the sun sets on the Paris conference.
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The draft text released midway through the Paris climate talks shows progress - but perhaps not enough for a truly ambitious deal.