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Obama

Executive disorder: Trump’s climate policies bid goodbye to reality

Despite the rhetoric, US president Donald Trump’s irrational climate order will fail to benefit the miners he has championed

Obama’s climate legacy: can it survive President Trump?

In the third of our Obama years trilogy, we ask whether the climate gains of the past eight years can last as the Donald takes power

Obama’s climate legacy: China, India and the Paris pact

In the second of a three-part series, we look at how President Obama galvanised international action on climate change

Obama’s climate legacy: a battle of attrition at home

In the first of a three-part series, Climate Home looks at Barack Obama’s domestic record on one of his top priority issues

Reader survey: Obama’s greatest climate impact was in China

Email subscribers and twitter followers were most positive about President Obama’s impact on the world stage

Obama: ‘I didn’t kill coal, gas did’

Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of waging a “war on coal”, but the current president says it was “market forces”

Obama heads to Arctic to hammer climate message

NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks

Obama stakes claim to Paris climate legacy

NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home

President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union – reimagined

BLOG: How would the State of the Union address look if Obama turned environmentalist? 350’s Jamie Henn conducts a rewrite

President Obama threatens Keystone XL veto

NEWS: Polluting oil pipeline faces more setbacks as Obama threatens to block Congress bill

Obama faces first climate test of 2015 with Keystone vote

ANALYSIS: Obama could see Keystone bill on his desk later this month, as Republican controlled Congress pushes for final decision on pipeline

Keystone XL Senate vote too tight to call

NEWS: Supporters of controversial tar sands pipeline need one more vote to pass bill through Senate

Obama administration announces $4 billion US clean energy fund

NEWS: Loan guarantees aim to boost flagging renewables sectors, under pressure from cheaper fossil fuels

Obama allies take on Koch brothers over climate denial

NEWS: Obama-linked Organizing for Action group calls on voters to fight back against Koch brother influence

Obama appeals to health benefits of acting on climate

NEWS: President believes cutting pollution levels and deaths from car and power emissions could mobilise public support

Obama climate plan will deliver only a quarter of pledged 2030 cuts

ANALYSIS: New US proposals likely to be tip of new carbon cuts as country seeks to meet international targets

US carbon cuts will leave world ‘safer and more stable’ says Obama

NEWS: Obama’s climate rules show international leadership, but environmentalists will push for tougher targets

Finally, the US gets serious on climate change

COMMENT: Obama’s emission cuts could be more ambitious, but it’s the political message from new EPA laws that’s significant

UN climate chief backs Obama’s new US carbon cuts

NEWS: White House move to curb carbon emissions could drive talks on 2015 climate deal forwards, says Christiana Figueres

New US coal standards ‘critical’ test of Obama’s climate policy

ANALYSIS: New US power plant standards, due in June, will be the ultimate litmus test of Obama’s Climate Action Plan

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