Move will put national security and lives overseas at risk, critics say, as overall UK aid budget is slashed to 0.3% of gross national incomeClimate aid to developing countries from the UK will be cut by about 14% to roughly...
Read MoreExclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reducedUK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering swingeing budget...
Read MoreExclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoodsThe UK plans to slash its aid to poor countries stricken by the climate crisis by...
Read MoreThe deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it.Marching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the draft deal at the Cop29 venue last...
Read MoreDeal paves the way for country-to-country carbon trading and creation of regulated global market to meet Paris targetsMarching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the draft deal at...
Read MoreExclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy’A Saudi Arabian delegate has been accused of directly making changes to an official Cop29 negotiating text, it can...
Read MoreThe talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer onesThe world’s most famous climate campaigner, Greta Thunberg, does not attend Cops these days, and her...
Read MoreKeir Starmer and Viktor Orbán among world leaders expected to address the UN climate conference on day twoIn the halls of Cop29, activists from Oil Change International gathered around a computer to watch a Dutch...
Read MoreEnergy secretary seeks to reestablish UK as a global leader on the climate crisis with meeting of Cop presidentsLabour will honour a pledge of £11.6bn in overseas aid for the climate crisis, the energy secretary, Ed...
Read MoreLaurence Tubiana, one of experts behind 2015 agreement, calls for taxes or charges on consumptionRich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one...
Read MoreThe organisers of the Dubai summit have been working on a new version of the global stocktake after the first draft met with strong criticismWe are shortly expecting a plenary to take place. The plenary sessions are the...
Read MoreSixth day of Cop28 comes as new report says threats to humanity drawing closer as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levelsCountries negotiating at Cop28 must not fall into the trap of point scoring and...
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