Norway starts payments to Indonesia for cutting forest emissions
Indonesia's deforestation rate declined in 2017, triggering a payment under a $1-billion climate deal
Indonesian presidential hopefuls vow energy self-sufficiency via palm
Greenpeace criticises both candidates for failing to ensure the biofuel programmes they promised will not cause further loss of forests, peatlands and mangroves
Hit by wilder weather, Botswana's farmers seek welfare payments
A government programme to provide work for those in need of income is seeing a rise in demand as droughts become harsher
India proposes more than $12 bln of pollution-reducing incentives
India has already extended a December 2017 deadline for utilities to meet emissions standards by up to six years
The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business
Technology is helping Ethiopian coffee farmers keep as much of the profit as possible at home
Europe's food makers find green palm oil hard to stomach
Only 74 percent of palm oil bought by Europe's food industry is certified as sustainable
UK plans to make plastic packaging producers pay for waste disposal
The proposals would make plastic packaging producers pay the full cost of dealing with their waste and introduce a deposit return scheme for cans and bottles
Return of the milkman? Pushing packaging out of the US delivery process
"We're sort of like the milkman" of groceries
Global commodity traders to monitor deforestation in Brazil's savannah
Roughly half of the biome's native forest and other vegetation have been destroyed in the past 50 years, with newly cleared land feeding Brazil's soy boom
'We are scared - listen to us!' London students demand at climate protest
When it comes to climate change, politicians "don't realise how bad it is. But we do," say students as thousands join UK protests