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Tensions at Cop29 in Baku intensified on Thursday after backlash against the latest proposals on a global climate agreement.

The Chancellor will be looking to raise up to £40 billion from tax hikes and spending cuts in order to avoid a return to austerity.

LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National…

Appointee was a climate chief at the World Bank and will lead UK’s return to high-level environmental diplomacy

The forthright climate expert has occupied top positions at the World Bank and the UN

The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has made an urgent call for a global action plan to tackle extreme heat. His recent speech in New York came as the average temperature of the Earth’s surface has broken records twice and followed 12 consecutive months as the warmest months ever.

Pressure piles on World Bank and IMF to steer countries to low-carbon transition at spring summit

UN climate chief says ‘torrents, not trickles’ of public and private finance needed to meet global challenge

President Biden is using the G20 summit to push for a bigger, better World Bank as an alternative to China's massive lending programs, which have left some low-income countries with massive debt.