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In Baku, Azerbaijan the two-week United Nations climate negotiations, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to poor to try to curb and adapt…

This year is on track to beat 2023’s record heat, the World Meteorological Organisation said

Delegates from nearly 200 countries join as negotiators seek increase in $100bn-a-year target for developing nations.

UN’s top climate official warns ‘no country is immune’ from climate disaster as conference begins in Azerbaijan

This emergency will cost trillions of dollars, and is beyond the reach of developing nations. Private investors have to step up, says Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayev

As fears begin over what a second Donald Trump term could look like, the staffing of the Trump administration has some experts worried.

The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing, says climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg

In today’s newsletter: As delegates gather for the world’s biggest climate conference, many are asking what the re-election of the man who thinks global heating is ‘a hoax’ will mean for the planet

Governments are gathering in Azerbaijan on Monday for talks on the climate that will test wealthy nations' commitment to funding poorer ones bearing the brunt of global warming. But concerns over Baku's human rights record and deep ties to fossil fuels have cast a heavy shadow over the UN’s crucial…

Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month

US president is running out of time to deliver funds and weapons before a predicted foreign policy change by Trump administration