Oil is inescapable in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The smell of it greets the visitor on arrival and from the shores of the Caspian…
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Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader
Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate…
View More Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leaderWorld Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert says
The World Bank must take a “quantum leap” to provide new finance to tackle the climate crisis or face “climate-driven economic catastrophe” that would bring…
View More World Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert says2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin
2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is…
View More 2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge marginIndigenous people and climate justice groups say Cop28 was ‘business as usual’
As the leaders of the developed world hailed the Cop28 agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels as historic, Indigenous people, frontline communities and climate…
View More Indigenous people and climate justice groups say Cop28 was ‘business as usual’Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF
Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate…
View More Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMFUN climate summit host UAE failed to report methane emissions to UN
The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in December, has failed to report its emissions of the powerful greenhouse…
View More UN climate summit host UAE failed to report methane emissions to UNCanada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts
More than 10,000 scientists, government officials and activists will gather in Montreal this week for the world’s most important biodiversity conference, eager to hammer out…
View More Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts‘We can do the impossible’: how key players reacted to end of Cop27 climate summit
World leaders, diplomats, activists and experts have been reacting to the end of the Cop27 climate conference, which produced a groundbreaking agreement on climate finance…
View More ‘We can do the impossible’: how key players reacted to end of Cop27 climate summitCop27 live: nations push for crucial climate deal as clock ticks down
Word from inside the heads of delegation meeting at #COP27 is that the Saudis and Russians are still saying any inclusion in text about fossil…
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