The Greenland ice sheet melt season for this year is over, resulting in the 28th year in a row in which Greenland has lost ice.

The Guardian says that according to COP29 president Mukhtar Babayev, “China would have offered more money to the poor world to tackle the climate crisis if western countries had not failed to show ...

A global treaty on plastics, touted as the most important environmental treaty since the Paris Agreement, will be negotiated ...

There is extensive global media coverage of the conclusion of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. BBC News says: “Richer countries have promised to raise their funding to help poorer countries fight climate ...

A draft finance deal unveiled this morning at the UN climate conference has failed to make progress on the central question of “how much money should wealthy countries provide to poorer nations that ...

Brazil’s new climate pledge, launched at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as two-thirds by 2035 compared to 2005 levels.

China’s historical emissions have now caused more global warming than the 27 member states of the EU, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

Talks at COP29 over efforts to cut emissions had to be “rescued from the brink of collapse by the COP presidency after opposition from oil-rich Saudi Arabia and some other developing countries” ...