Category: Cop26: Glasgow climate change conference 2021

Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds

Trillions of dollars a year are ‘adding fuel to the fire’ of the climate crisis, experts sayThe fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the International Monetary...

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Ed Miliband: honour promises on jabs to poor countries to save Cop26 deal

Labour’s shadow business secretary says the government must ‘rebuild trust’ after a series of missteps on way to climate summitBoris Johnson should set out plans to provide Covid-19 vaccinations to all...

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US and EU pledge 30% cut in methane emissions to limit global heating

Major commitment with deadline of 2030 is big advance towards reaching 1.5C goal set out in Paris agreementThe US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in...

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UK planning last-ditch China climate talks to break impasse before Cop26

Exclusive: crunch meeting of world leaders tabled for this month with China key to success of climate summitBoris Johnson is planning to convene last-ditch climate talks with the president of China, Xi Jinping, at a crunch...

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UK ministers ‘met fossil fuel firms nine times more often than clean energy companies’

Exclusive: revelations come amid rising concerns over government’s plans to meet net zero targetUK government ministers have held private meetings with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers roughly nine times as often...

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