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

The top three parties remain neck-and-neck. As of polling released on 25 November, Fianna Fáil is leading with 21% of support ...

Less than 48 hours after the gavel came down at COP29, Carbon Brief ran a webinar to talk through all the key outcomes from the summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Talks for a new global plastics treaty have reached a halfway point, with countries clashing in a “heated” plenary session on Wednesday over a lack of progress ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

COP29 heads into its second week, “with tempered hope that negotiators and ministers can work through disagreements and hammer out a deal after slow progress last week” ...