Last month was the hottest April on record and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records, reports the Guardian. All seven of those months were at least 1C above the average for that month during 1951-1980, it adds. The figures all but assure that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, the Guardian says.

The amount of electricity generated from coal in the UK fell to zero for the first time in over 100 years last week, reports the Press Association, citing Carbon Brief analysis. There were seven periods of zero coal, totalling nearly 1/3 of the week, says the Financial Times, also citing Carbon Brief. Both articles note government plans to phase out unabated coal by 2025 and look at the reasons why coal use has fallen so low, including cheap gas, the rise of renewables and coal plant closures.

As climate talks resume in Bonn this week, a flurry of reports on climate impacts have been published. The Paris climate agreement “failed to include meaningful mechanisms” to guarantee financial support for poor countries, says an Oxfam report covered by the Independent, under the headline: “Paris climate agreement has ‘failed’ poor countries, report says”. The BBC covers a report from Christian Aid, which finds more than a billion people will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change by 2060. China and India are among the countries most threatened, it says, with Kolkata and Mumbai most at risk. All eight of the most vulnerable cities are in Asia, followed by Miami. Climate Home also previews the Bonn talks.

Shell has re-established an interest in renewables, having previously ended investments back in 2009. It has created a “New Energies” division bringing together Shell’s existing hydrogen, biofuels and electrical activities along with plans to invest in wind power, reports the Guardian. Shell wants to be “at the leading edge of transition” towards low carbon, according to “insiders” quoted by the Guardian. Last week Shell outlined a below-2C scenario for the first time but said it had “no immediate plans” to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio.

Former Conservative MP Tim Yeo says the government should pause its nuclear strategy and reconsider which technologies to pursue, reports the Financial Times. Separately, France’s energy minister has warned of the “colossal” cost of the planned Hinkley point new nuclear plant, reports the Financial Times. The Guardian says the Chinese firm co-investing in Hinkley C will not build the scheme alone, if EDF drops out. The Guardian also reports that Russia’s state-owned Rosatom is keen to break in to the UK market.

Fracking firm Third Energy should be allowed to explore for shale gas at a site in Yorkshire, planning officials have recommended. The decision will be taken by North Yorkshire County Council planning committee at a meeting starting on Friday 20 May. Mail Online, the Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Guardian all carry the story. The Guardian also reports on protests.

Plans to launch a market-based carbon offsetting scheme for international aviation emissions made little progress after three days of talks in Montreal last week, reports Carbon Pulse. Some nations even appeared to backtrack on a previous agreement by proposing a pilot phase and a later start date for the plans. A deal is due to be voted on at the full International Civil Aviation Organization assembly in October.

A group of 15 MPs including the climate-sceptic and Eurosceptic former environment secretary Owen Paterson has written to energy and climate secretary Amber Rudd, urging her to delay setting the UK’s fifth carbon budget, ignoring a legal deadline of the end of June. A group of 20 Conservatives urged the government to accept the recommended carbon budget, in a letter to David Cameron earlier this month. Elsewhere in the Sunday Telegraph, climate-sceptic columnist Christopher Booker calls the UK’s Climate Change Act “the most insane Act passed by parliament”.

Newspapers and broadcasters are putting the public at greater risk of harm from climate change impacts, says Bob Ward in the Huffington Post. Large amounts of inaccurate and misleading information on climate are communicated to the public by the media, he says, citing a submission to the House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology, which he authored. He says public opinion on the causes of climate change is out of sync with the “extremely strong consensus among scientists that climate change is happening [and] is driven primarily by human activities”.

An estimate of climate sensitivity using a simple energy balance model suggests a 1C temperature increase for a doubling of CO2, a value the authors note is far below estimates derived from global climate models and below the range given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1.5-4.5C). Based on their exploration of validity of simple model approach, however, the authors suggest that objections to low values of climate sensitivity in the region of 1C “need to be reconsidered”.

A new study examining the health impacts of climate change on three “sentinel” communities in ecologically distinct regions of Alaska finds that the occurrence of respiratory syndromes, such as pollen allergies and asthma, and unintentional injuries are significantly higher in months experiencing unseasonable environmental conditions. With climate change impacts most pronounced in far north latitudes, more epidemiological studies are needed to assess the health impacts on residents, the paper notes.