The Latest Breaking News from COP

Coca-Cola is among several sponsors and partners whose track record is deemed incompatible with the climate summit.

China on Tuesday criticised calls made by some COP27 delegations for Taiwan to be included in the annual climate talks process.

COP27 has some of the most authoritarian security of any of the COP summits. Set in the walled resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, it is surrounded by 36km of concrete and razor wire, overseen by new surveillance technologies and a “security observatory”.

US climate envoy John Kerry met Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt in a further hint of improving relations between the world's top two polluters, seen as vital for substantial progress against global warming. The meeting between Kerry and China's top climate official…

In his speech to the COP27 summit in Egypt, Chris Bowen says Australia is back as a key collaborator to deal with the threat of climate change.

It’s crunch time for diplomats at the United Nations-sponsored COP27 climate conference in Egypt, with dwindling days left to resolve the thorny issue of how poor countries should be compensated for the harm inflicted by global warming they didn’t cause.

Political leaders at the global climate summit are handed an over-long list of unsolved issues to sort this week - and NZ wins Fossil of the Day award

Some countries want to remove the 1.5°C limit on temperature increase as fossil fuel lobbyists water down talks at the UN Climate Conference

Global climate talks in Egypt are headed into their second half with plenty of uncertainty left over whether there’ll be a substantial deal to combat climate change

This year's COP27 climate summit in Egypt headed into its final week on Monday with nearly 200 countries racing to strike a deal to steer the world towards cutting planet-warming emissions and scale up finance for countries being ravaged by climate impacts.

Rod Oram reports from the world climate summit that a session dedicated to agriculture had a notable absentee, New Zealand's Fonterra and farming industry