Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economyRich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis in the early hours of Sunday...
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 MoreJochen Flasbarth called on Cop29 delegates to press on as world faces increasing crises and drop in solidarityGovernments meeting to forge a global settlement on climate finance must get over their differences this week and come...
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 MoreExclusive: Target is 81% emissions cut compared with 1990, but activists say it must be backed by plan of actionKeir Starmer will announce a stringent new climate goal for the UK on Tuesday, the Guardian can reveal, with a...
Read MoreSimple measures could raise five times more money than poorer countries are asking for, research claimsRich countries could raise five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes...
Read MoreOxfam says ‘commonsense solution’ would reduce emissions and raise urgently needed climate financeFair taxes on superyachts and private jets in the UK could have brought in £2bn last year to provide vital funds...
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 MoreHumanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slipsThe UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance...
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