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February March

Sweden’s deputy The World Meteorological
prime minister Isabella Organization warns climate
Lovin goes viral with change is pushing the world into
an all-female photo “uncharted territory”, following
announcing an ambitious three record-breakingly warm
climate law. It is a clear years in a row.
dig at US president
Donald Trump, who a The number of coal power plants
week earlier signed an in planning worldwide halved in
order restricting women’s 2016, a report from Coal Swarm,
access to abortion Greenpeace and Sierra Club finds.
worldwide, surrounded A freeze on projects in China and
exclusively by men.
India improves the odds of meeting
Photo credit: Facebook/Isabella Lovin international climate goals.

May April

Exxon Mobil’s shareholders win a An entire Canadian river
landmark climate resolution, forcing changes course in four days, as
the world’s largest oil company to a result of glacier melting. The
“stress test” its portfolio against a 2C Slims River in Yukon switched
global warming limit. Full story p26. from flowing into the Bering
Sea to Kaskawulsh River.
China’s Xi Jinping talks up clean
energy and science cooperation at
the first forum on his “belt and road” Brazil sees its worst land-
overseas investment strategy. But the related mass murder in
country remains the biggest backer of decades. Deep in the Amazon,
coal power development worldwide, forest clearance and conflict go
which threatens to bust climate goals. hand in hand. Full story p18.

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October

New York announces plans to go
carbon neutral by 2050, in line with
the tougher 1.5C warming limit in the
Paris Agreement.

Germany’s Green party makes
climate action - a coal phase-out
plan and clean transport strategy
- a priority in negotiations to form
a coalition government with a free
market liberal party and Angela
Merkel’s conservatives.

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