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Organisers of this year’s environmental conference hope cooperation on green issues could help ease global tensions

Re-establishing trust between developed and developing nations is essential if our goals are to be achieved, says Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayev

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

‘A dangerous and very unwelcome pattern is developing – the oil industry capture of the COP process,’ says Green Party co-leader

We don’t want to give you the wrong idea: things are bad. Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the fossil fuel lobby was everywhere at the COP talks, and even solutions like electric cars have their problems. And that just covers the past few weeks of this newsletter.

Placing health at the forefront of climate planning in India is not just a necessity but an imperative for several compelling reasons

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Consumers think governments and business leaders aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change.

Indigenous campaigners, human rights defenders and climate activists say they are being silenced by fear of reprisals