Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber and UN climate change boss, Simon Stiell, had called on G20 countries to show leadership and deliver ambitious emissions cuts.
A dozen countries want to officially debate for the first time in history the possibility to halt deep-sea mining, but have faced opposition from China and the island-nation of Nauru.
Draft guidelines for its export credit agency signal support for some gas projects until 2025 – three years after the deadline set by the Glasgow pledge
The Green Climate Fund suspended a $117 million forest conservation project in Nicaragua over escalating violence against indigenous people.
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
The world’s largest economies failed to agree on targets to phase down fossil fuels and scale up renewables
Workers in Philadelphia questioned whether green jobs could permanently replace dirty ones and pay the same high rates
Timmermans has led the EU’s climate policy since 2019 but will now seek to become Dutch prime minister instead
Oil and gas companies like Shell, BP and Equinor were represented at shipping climate talks
US climate envoy John Kerry visited Beijing, re-starting talks on coal, methane and other climate issues
Brussels and Buenos Aires agreed to work for a “stable delivery” of gas to Europe while cracking down on methane leaks and building renewables
Australia’s new climate minister says the plan relied too heavily on future technologies – the new one will include sectoral plans
Experts said that the term “climate reparations” implies liability, whereas the loss and damage fund will be filled on a voluntary basis
“We must be brutally honest about the gaps that need to be filled, the root causes and how we got to this place here today” said Sultan Al-Jaber
At Cop28 the EU wants governments to agree on more renewables and a faster phase out of fossil fuels with a “residual” role for carbon capture technologies
Canada’s climate minister implied he would like to have given more but said he’s “not the finance minister unfortunately”
There’s been a boom in investment in minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel – which will be necessary for the energy transition
Developed countries pushed for more focus on private money while developing governments wanted more public money from rich nations
The fund aims to stop deforestation in the supply chains of major commodities. But campaigners are concerned over money going to big companies linked to irregularities
Experts consulted by Climate Home News suggested the vote will define Ecuador’s economic model for the future.