Global Warming Is Here: Live Coverage of Climate Week 2014.

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The biggest climate protest in history kicked off a week of debate, disruption and aspiration in New York. Check here for the latest updates as U.S. President Barack Obama and more than 120 additional heads of state join business leaders like Apple CEO Tim Cook try to break the policy impasse.

"The boomer generation, we have to look at ourselves deeply and ask ourselves: Are we going to be the first generation that leaves the next one worse off?" Cook said at the opening day of Climate Week. "Do you want to be part of that club?"

Apple plans to power all of its data centers with renewable energy and is already one of the biggest producers in the world, Cook said. He sat for an interview with Christiana Figueres, head of the UN climate process, to mark the launch of a new report about big business and climate change.

Tim Cook unveils the Apple Watch on Sept. 9. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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Rockefeller Heirs Divest Oil Assets That Built Their FortuneThe Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from their great-grandfather’s Standard Oil Co., today joined a group of investors announcing they will abandon companies reliant on coal and tar sands. Total divested funds reached $50 billion this week, and advocates today pledged to triple the total by next December.

“This is like a snowball, and it’s going to get more and more mass as it rolls forward,” Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, said today.

9.22.14 | TOM RANDALLChina Surpasses EU in Per-Capita Pollution for First Time

China is the largest producer and consumer of coal in the world. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg

You've heard this fact before: China is the biggest polluter of greenhouse gases in the world. It's typically followed by this qualifier: it's also the biggest, with 1.3 billion people, and the average person actually has a small carbon footprint.

That excuse is having a tough time holding up under the rapid growth of China's middle class. China has now surpassed the EU in per-capita emissions, showing just how difficult it will be to bend the curve on climate change.

Chinese still pollute less than half as much per person as gasoline-chugging Americans, perhaps one reason President Xi Jinping chose to stay home during the UN Climate Summit in New York this week.

The 392-megawatt California Ivanpah plant developed by Google, NRG and Bright Source, in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada.

Buildings at Lujiazui are shrouded in heavy smog on Dec. 8, 2013 in Shanghai, China. Photographer: ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images