Bonn, May 17 2016 - A high-level event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference today focused on how to move forward with implementing countries’ national climate action plans - nationally determined contributions (NDCs) - under the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

Greenpeace activists have climbed the British Museum and have hung banners off its columns in protest at BP’s sponsorship of its new ancient Egypt exhibition.

The museum was temporarily closed for around four hours on Thursday during the protest because of “visitor safety reasons.”

Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit surprised both sides in the closely watched Clean Power Plan case Monday by deciding to have a full panel of the active circuit judges hear the case — and to postpone the hearing until Sept. 27.

Although the circuit court move delays an initial hearing for four months, in the end a decision by the entire panel of active judges could speed up the appellate process, exclude some of the most conservative judges who are on senior status, and guard against the possibility of gridlock at the Supreme Court, where a tie 4-4 vote would leave the appellate court’s decision intact.

Days before Japan will host a G7 summit, NGOs slammed the Asian nation for financing coal-powered energy in developing countries, even as other countries and investors shun the climate-damaging fossil fuel.

Within the G7 bloc, Japan stands out for funneling more than $22 billion (20 billion euros) into overseas coal plants since 2007, more than the other six countries combined.

Scientists have discovered a potential threat to Earth's climate lurking in a dark and smelly place: the dung of cattle treated with antibiotics, a study said Wednesday.

Lab studies revealed that dung pats from animals given a common antibiotic gave off more than double the methane, a potent greenhouse gas, than those of non-treated cows, a team wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit surprised both sides in the closely watched Clean Power Plan case Monday by deciding to have a full panel of the active circuit judges hear the case — and to postpone the hearing until Sept. 27.

Odds are increasing that 2016 will be the hottest year on the books, as April continued a remarkable streak of record-warm months.

Whisper it quietly, but a gender revolution is taking place at the global climate change negotiations.

As of 17 May, the six most influential positions within the UN process are all held by women, a significant increase on last year’s total of two.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Irish President Mary Robinson and Kenyan diplomat Macharia Kamau as special envoys for El Nino and climate.

The El Nino weather phenomenon, which occurs every two to seven years, affects rainfall patterns and causes both drought and flooding.