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Roughly one in every 25 delegates in Belém represents the fossil fuel industry – the highest proportion ever recorded at the annual UN climate negotiations

Passengers included a woman who was nine months pregnant

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities committed last month by paramilitary forces fighting the army

Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.

Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countries

Richer countries have agreed to give poorer nations hundreds of billions to cut emissions, but details can be hard to find

Denmark has slashed asylum numbers by granting only short-term status and by targeting ‘ghettoes’, which critics say has damaged the country’s values

One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

Russia has launched a massive attack on Kyiv, causing fires and scattering debris across the city

"I think they were just unlucky."

World leaders gather for the UN climate summit (Cop30) in Belém, Brazil, amid concerns about the slow progress in cutting global carbon emissions. Ten years into the historic Paris climate agreement, we are off track to meet its core objective, to keep global warming well below 2°C, relative to pre-industrial…