The Latest Breaking News from COP29

Record carbon emissions, melting ice sheets and the return of the former US president will all be under the spotlight at this week’s climate summit

Diplomats from across the world will descend on the Azerbaijani capital of Baku for the annual climate summit, known as COP29, to discuss how to avoid the increasing threats from climate change in a place that was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry

A senior official at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan was caught on camera discussing potential fossil fuel investment deals.

The latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists that I lead shows how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail. This evidence underscores the need for decisive climate action at the…

More than 50 organisations wrote to Sir Keir ahead of world leaders gathering for climate action talks at Cop29 in Azerbaijan.

The annual conference kicks off in Azerbaijan on Monday, 11 November

Every autumn, the UN holds its international climate summit or “Cop” (Conference of the Parties). Between each Cop, a smaller, lower-profile gathering takes place. Called the SB – short for “subsidary bodies” of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – these smaller meetings matter but don’t draw as…

Focus will be on climate finance and improving on current goal of providing $100bn a year to poor countries

Prospects of strong outcome appear dim but there is hope the talks will address pressing issue of climate finance

On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near

Country’s foreign minister says UN climate summits have produced ‘no results’ as Pacific nation takes the rare step of withdrawing from upcoming Cop29