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The UK will be focused on discussing how to accelerate climate action as well as defending multilaterialism itself.

Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger

Exclusive: David Bailey plays down concerns after HSBC and Barclays quit UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance

From back gardens to hi-tech hydroponics, the future of food doesn’t have to be rural

Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed by other multilateral organisations. They ranged from eliminating hunger to empowering women, and from reducing child mortality to environmental sustainability.

The body of a 64-year-old woman attempting to evacuate has been pulled from under debris and fallen trees

Global climate talks are taking place in the Amazon - the "lungs of the world" - as political headwinds threaten to blow multinational collaboration off course.

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others