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ASK ME ANYTHING: Our climate correspondent Stuti Mishra is on hand to answer your questions as the UN’s 29th annual climate summit in Baku brings together world leaders, activists, and experts to address urgent climate challenges

The Paris climate agreement's goals "are in great peril" and 2024 is on track to break new temperature records, the United Nations warned Monday as COP29 talks opened in Baku.

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…