The Latest Breaking News from COP

Campaigners condemn decision as regressive, saying ‘climate change affects whole world, not half of it’

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has been named as president-designate of the Cop29 climate conference. He will be the second oil executive in a row to head the global environmental summit after UAE's Sultan Al Jaber in 2023.

Mukhtar Babayev is named president-in-waiting of UN climate summit to be held in November

A YOUNG Scottish climate activist is at the heart of advocating for justice on the global stage.

Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change. But it was not invited to COP28. A young Afghan student came and advocated for his homeland. Did he make any progress?

While the COP28 agreement sets out to see the end of fossil fuels, the UN reported that the world is still not on track to meet net-zero goals by 2050.

For years large fossil fuel producers — including Australia — have expanded fossil fuel production while maintaining rhetorically that the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But global emissions are overwhelmingly caused by the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels. Unless fossil fuels are phased out, emissions will…

The UN summit’s deal heralds the end of coal, oil and gas. The real test is whether producers back it up with action

While the UN's COP28 climate summit marked a pivot moment, when the world pledged to say "goodbye" to fossil fuels, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told AFP on Friday, it needs to now urgently boost finance for the energy transition in developing countries.

Every year, the official UN climate summits are getting bigger. In 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow there were around 40,000 participants, COP27 in 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh had 50,000.

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