New Zealand plan to halve greenhouse gas emissions criticised as an ‘accounting trick’
Experts say commitment to cut emissions by 2030 is not ambitious enough and relies too heavily on carbon offsets
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Antarctic glacier named Glasgow to mark COP26
Nine fast-flowing glaciers in West Antarctica have been named after locations of important climate treaties, conferences and reports. One of the glaciers is now called Glasgow Glacier to mark the city hosting the COP26 climate change conference.
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Climate change: Major US oil companies to be quizzed in Congress
Top executives of major Western oil companies are to testify before the US Congress amid accusations that they misled the public about climate change.
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COP26: What effect does methane have on climate change? And more questions
The COP26 climate summit kicks off in Glasgow this weekend - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming. But what's it all about? BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath answers some of your questions.
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Climate change: What's it like living in a place where it's 50C?
The climate crisis is no longer a future concern. In many parts of the world, it has already begun.
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Cop26 summit at serious risk of failure, says Boris Johnson
UK PM says climate crisis talks at G20 over weekend only ‘inched forward’
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Why Australia is accused of cheating during climate talks – video
The Morrison government often claims that it 'meets and beats' its carbon emissions reduction targets. Those targets - first set during a major climate convention in Kyoto back in 1997 - actually tell a story of how Australia’s behaviour across decades has made it a climate change outcast.
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They would walk 500 miles: meet the Cop26 pilgrims who got to Glasgow on foot
Accompanied by songs, stories and a stash of lentils, a group trekked from London, connecting with their faith, the countryside and the people they met along the way.
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OP - The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?
The city’s plan to rebuild Manhattan’s East River Park on higher ground has incited a dispute over ‘green gentrification’
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Reasons to be hopeful: the climate solutions available now.
We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing
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The Colour of the Climate Crisis – in pictures
The Colour of the Climate Crisis is an exhibition by the environmental social initiative Do The Green Thing.
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Call for world leaders to ‘banish ghosts of past’ with Cop26 climate vows
Conference president, Alok Sharma, says countries must agree on how to tackle crisis
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Climate change: Extreme weather events are 'the new norm'
Extreme weather events - including powerful heat waves and devastating floods - are now the new normal, says the World Meteorological Organisation. The State of the Climate report for 2021 highlights a world that is "changing before our eyes."
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COP26: Charles to say 'war-like footing' needed
The Prince of Wales will tell the COP26 summit that a "war-like footing" is needed to tackle the climate crisis.
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We’re in uncharted territory for the world’s climate, UN says
Report sets out heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and floods that have wreaked havoc this year
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UN Secretary-General: COP26 Must Keep 1.5 Degrees Celsius Goal Alive
See statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres at COP26 World Leaders Summit below:
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Around 120 Leaders Gather at Cop26 in Glasgow for ‘Last, Best Chance’ to Keep 1.5 Alive
COP26 President Alok Sharma calls for immediate action and solidarity to ensure Glasgow delivers on the promise of Paris Leaders addressed by young climate activists, indigenous peoples and business leaders from across the globe as they focus on keeping 1.5C within reach <
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Op - Cop26: welcome to Glasgow – the world is watching
Now most countries have experienced the climate crisis as wildfires, floods or heatwaves, leaders know they must deliver.
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Op - The children of tomorrow will watch Boris Johnson’s Cop26 speech and ask – WTF, could you not have even tried?
It might just be that the children of tomorrow might point out that, seriously, given it was one minute to midnight, could you not have drummed someone up who hadn’t, right up until 10 minutes to midnight, been denying the existence of the clock itself?
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Op - No wonder Boris Johnson is saying it’s ‘touch and go’ for a successful Cop26
International diplomacy’ ahead of Cop26 has consisted of lecturing other countries about the need for ambition and action, while at home the government takes almost no action at all
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