Indigenous and women's rights can boost climate fight - U.N.

Flagship report from the U.N. climate science panel recognises strong community land rights as key to tackling global warming for the first time

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EXPERT VIEWS-U.N. climate and land report flags need for 'new and healthy balance'

Development agencies and green groups say everyone - from government to business and individuals - must make an effort

Enough food and fewer climate threats - scientists cook up recipe for land use

Study by U.N. science panel looks at how hotter conditions are affecting land, and how changes in land use are driving climate change

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UK university bans beef to combat 'climate emergency'

The college said it aimed to switch to clean energy and become carbon neutral - meaning it will produce no more carbon emissions than it can offset - by 2025

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Smart gas cooking seeks to break African cities' dirty charcoal habit

Businesses promote pay-as-you-go gas cooking in urban areas, hoping to cut charcoal use, which damages forests and health

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'Green gold': Kenyan farmers abandon food crops to grow herbal stimulant

Struggling to get decent maize harvests as drought bites, farmers are turning to fast-growing, less-thirsty muguka to make money

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Even in cities, natural signs can warn of floods, researchers find

A study says indigenous knowledge on how nature flags up extreme weather is also relevant in urban areas to help alert residents

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Art in the time of climate change: Edinburgh Festival Fringe goes green

Once characterised by streets strewn with flyers and plastic cups, the festival programme now has a blank first page for visitors to scribble down their recommendations and pass it on to others

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'Flight shame' website spells out emissions toll on global climate

Shameplane.com is spreading the Swedish-born concept of "flygskam"

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Australia should reduce emissions, coal mining - Pacific leaders

Leaders from Pacific islands say Canberra's announcement of climate change aid for the region does not excuse its support for Australia's coal industry

Death toll from Indian floods reaches 147, hundreds of thousands evacuated

Authorities fear rescue operations in parts of Kerala could be hit by thunderstorms and more rains

Indonesia president makes moratorium on forest clearance permanent

The moratorium was first introduced in 2011 and has been renewed regularly as part of the efforts to reduce emissions from fires caused by deforestation

Alaska's hottest month portends transformation into 'unfrozen state'

Alaska, like other parts of the far north, is warming at least twice as fast as the planet as a whole

U.N. raises aid appeal for Zimbabwe to $331.5 mln, many face starvation

El Nino-induced drought cut the maize harvest by half and is responsible for low water levels at the biggest hydro plant Kariba

Britain would hold 2020 U.N. climate talks in Glasgow

Britain said in June it would bid to host the talks which will take place at the end of 2020, but a decision has yet to be made

OPINION: An average American generates as much CO2 as 581 Burundians

While every country suffers the impacts of climate change, none better sums up the burning injustice than Burundi