The Latest Breaking News from COP

Young activists are key figures of the climate movement. So much has been self-evident ever since Greta Thunberg sat outside the steps of the Swedish parliament during school hours in August 2018 and galvanised others from her generation to follow suit in the international movement of Fridays for Future.

Fossil-fuel dependent country hopes to provide bridge between wealthy global north and poor south at November gathering

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

Exclusive: Incoming UN summit president calls on governments to stay on track, as majority of global population go to the polls

Following the UN's COP28 climate talks in oil-fuelled Dubai, the COP29 conference is headed for the historic cradle of oil, Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a gas boom.

Pedro Pedroso, the outgoing president of the G77 plus China bloc of developing countries, expressed concerns in an interview, warning that the landmark deal achieved at last year's climate talks in Dubai could be at risk.

G77 president Pedro Pedroso warns deal risks failing if polluters like UK, US and Canada don’t rethink plans to expand oil and gas

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.