We routinely check the nutrition labels of products we buy, but carbon footprint labels seemed to disappear as quickly as they materialized a decade ago. Now Quorn, a maker of vegetarian meat substitutes, says it’s time to start again.

For decades, scientists have warned that Australia’s unique ecosystems were especially susceptible to climate change, yet its people, encouraged by conservative politicians waving lumps of coal instead of snowballs, continued to emit greenhouse-gas emissions at per-capita rates rivaling those of North America. What’s happening there is what’s happening everywhere in microcosm.

This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

This year will go down in history as the year of Natural Climate Solutions, and especially tree-planting. But more important than planting trees is ending unsustainable farming of palm oil, soy, beef, and timber.rs Here’s what we’ve learned addressing the challenge over 20 years in the Mekong Delta.

You may have read that that climate talks closed last Sunday without final agreement on a key piece of implementing the Paris Agreement, which goes into full effect in 2021. But international negotiations are not the whole story, and what we saw in our work on the ground this year has been incredibly energizing.

The 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended today without agreement on Article 6, which governs international carbon trading. Several countries, however, have vowed to move forward bilaterally and multilaterally.

Not much to report yet from year-end climate talks in Madrid, but here are the current negotiating texts and a link to the stock-taking, which will be streamed live.