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USA set to make biggest commitment to date to Green Climate Fund during G20 summit in Brisbane

Historic US-China climate change agreement promises to deliver huge boost to the global green economy

BusinessGreen runs down the responses from key figures in the political, business and NGO sectors

US President Barack Obama and China's Xi Jingping have today unveiled a new deal to slash carbon emissions over the coming decades

Barack Obama aims for reduction of a quarter or more by 2025, while Xi Jinping sets goal for emissions to fall after 2030

Innovative new US partnership with Wind Energy Corporation aims to slash emissions of auto dealers

Joel Makower talks to Paul Hawken about his bold proposals for reducing, not just stabilising, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases

Oil and gas industry asks court for immediate injunction

A Republican-controlled Congress spells bad news for the green economy and UN climate change talks, but will it prove as disastrous as some environmentalists fear

Car makers agree sum to resolve legal claim from EPA that they understated emissions data for some 2012 and 2013 models