The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Last week, Azerbaijan hosted the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP29. Its main objectives were to agree on a financial framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to present national plans for meeting the terms of the Paris Agreement. This includes limiting global heating to…

Protesters travelling to Canberra after blockading a key coal port have been warned they risk helping the coalition win office.

Representatives of small and impoverished nations threatened by climate change have walked out of talks at COP29 over disagreements on funding…

The European Union on Saturday raised an offer by rich nations to help poor countries worst hit by climate change to US$300 billion a year in a bid to salvage talks that the developing world warned were on the brink of collapse.

The United Nations’ annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change

Vulnerable nations are seeking $1.3 trillion annually to deal with the damage caused by climate change and to adapt.

Climate talks are whittling away a pledge to wean the world off fossil fuels and are at risk of a deadlock on climate finance that will satisfy no-one.

As the annual UN climate conference, Cop29, draws to a close, negotiators, civil society observers and activists are staying up late, poring over draft texts that will determine how the international community addresses climate change for years to come. Central among their concerns this year: the turbulent world of carbon…

When the rain kept coming down, people began to worry. We were afraid the dam up the hill might not hold up. This is Jie’s story