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As it happened: World leaders speak at Cop28 in Dubai
World leaders set out their climate plans and negotiating positions at Cop28. Follow the news and views with Climate Home News, live
Countries pledge $400m to set up loss and damage fund
Germany and Cop host UAE led contributions to get a fund for climate victims up and running, in an early win for the Cop28 presidency
Cop28 bulletin: A loss and damage fund is born
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Cop28 bulletin: Welcome to Dubai
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How can corporates ‘course correct’ on climate?
The UN’s global stocktake found the world is off course to meet its climate goals. How can businesses help fix that?
Four questions for Cop28 to settle about a global carbon market
As carbon credits face intense scrutiny, negotiators will wrangle over how to ensure the integrity of a new global carbon market
Seven things to watch out for in world leader speeches at Cop28
Leaders including Narendra Modi, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron and Lula will share their climate plans in Dubai on Friday and Saturday
Ten years on from Haiyan, Shell’s intimidation won’t silence me
I am named in a Shell lawsuit against Greenpeace for trying to board their oil rig, but I won’t stop fighting their climate vandalism
The Cop28 climate summit must set us free from fossil fuels
My homeland of Denmark played its part in causing the climate crisis but is now phasing out fossil fuels. In Dubai, the world must follow
Here’s how the oil-rich UAE delivers a Cop28 ‘win’
The Cop28 team must show leadership on fossil fuel phase-out, renewable and energy efficiency, finance, climate plans and loss and damage
Leaks reveal how McKinsey drives African climate agenda
Whistleblowers raise alarm over American consultancy’s growing influence in pushing carbon markets and developing energy transition plans
We need more humanists in climate campaigning
Climate advocacy is overly dominated by scientists and engineers and is weakened by the lack of historians, philosophers and artists
The ‘inevitable’ fossil fuel fight set to dominate Cop28
Could petrostate UAE be the climate summit host that lands an international agreement to exit coal, oil and gas?
Meet the Italian fugitive advising Emirati start-up Blue Carbon
Samuele Landi has been convicted for bankruptcy fraud in Italy. That was no problem for the UAE firm doing forest carbon credit deals across Africa.
Fearing repression in Dubai, non-binary people stay away from Cop28
Non-binary and trans people have been detained and deported at Dubai airport and being gay is effectively criminalised in the UAE
In numbers: The state of the climate ahead of Cop28
Annual emissions may have just peaked but the world’s temperature will keep rising until we reach net zero
Slow start for Indonesia’s much-hyped carbon market
Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits
Ghana’s flood victims blame government for overflowing dam destruction
Last month, a government-owned electricity company deliberately spilled water from its dam, displacing tens of thousands
Oil, carbon and loss: navigating Cop28 with Climate Home News
Climate Home News is hosting a series of three online events to guide you through Cop28. Join us to hear from the experts and ask your questions.
OECD: Rich countries ‘likely’ to hit $100bn climate finance goal in 2022
Data shows countries provided $89.6bn in 2021, but funding for adaptation declined.