From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many.
Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference,…
National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what's needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme.
Their Emissions Gap report says country pledges will fail…
US-led alliance includes 90 countries but China, India and Russia have not joined the methane pact
US president Joe Biden has unveiled a multinational plan to control methane, regarded by the…
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…
Cop26 pledge cautiously welcomed as ‘first step’ in making indigenous rights central to climate crisis talks.
At least $1.7bn of funding will be given directly to indigenous peoples and local…
Planting trees and preserving mangrove swamps and wetlands are cheap and effective but overlooked, report says
Tree-planting, wetland restoration, mangrove swamps and other natural ways of…
India and the UK will launch a transnational and transcontinental grid project, the Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG or OSOWOG), at COP26 tomorrow.
The project aims to…
Summary of the main developments on the second day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow
World leaders agree deal to end deforestation, as we reported this morning. Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro and Joe…
There is outrage after Jeff Bezos’ $86 million Gulf Stream jet was among the hundreds of VIP jets flying into Scottish environmental summit COP26.
Around 400 private jets carrying heads of state,…
PM to fly from Glasgow to London in plane run partly on sustainable fuel rather than taking 4.5-hour train
Boris Johnson is flying back from the Cop26 climate conference on a private plane rather…
More than 100 world leaders will promise to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit's first major deal.
Brazil - where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut…
UK PM says climate crisis talks at G20 over weekend only ‘inched forward’
The Cop26 climate summit is at serious risk of failure because countries are still not promising enough to restrict global…
Glasgow conference is focused on more ambitious 2030 cuts but, while PM says Australia may cut emissions by 35%, the 26% to 28% target won’t be changed.
Scott Morrison has used his national…
Summary of the main developments on kick-off day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow.
The main things that happened on day one of the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow included:
Chaotic scenes as…
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has told young protesters that politicians attending COP26 are "pretending to take our future seriously".
The arrival of world leaders in Glasgow for the COP26 summit…
India has promised to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070 - missing a key goal of the COP26 summit for countries to commit to reach that target by 2050.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the…
The Queen has urged world leaders at the COP26 climate summit to "achieve true statesmanship" and create a "safer, stabler future" for the planet.
In a video message, she said many people hoped the…
We envision two scenarios: what life could look like in 2050 if we do nothing, and what life could look like if we take action now. Watch this video to take a glimpse into the future and find out…
Nigeria’s central bank earlier in February outlawed banks and financial institutions from transacting or operating in cryptocurrencies, saying they posed a threat to the financial system.
The…
New polling data shows two-thirds of Republicans do not want to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the climate crisis
Nearly two in three Republicans believe oil and gas companies are at…