Many people long involved in global climate negotiations see the annual United Nations COP climate talks as fundamentally flawed. That includes me. On Sunday, the 29th round of talks finished in Baku, ...

It's been three decades of COP talks - and as most of the climate metrics get worse, questions about whether the summits are working have become impossible to ignore. This year, approximately 40,000 ...

Columbian activist Gina Cortes Vaderrama leads a protest for climate finance grants for poor countries on day twelve at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 23, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

After a long and fraught night of talks, COP29 in Baku finally concluded in the early hours of 24 November with a deal that will see wealthier countries funnel billions of dollars to poorer countries ...

The legitimacy of COP31 presidency rests on capability, fairness, and inclusivity—principles to which Türkiye points in ...

If you're still heading to this year's UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, I hope you booked early. Hotels long sold out, and latecomers face extortionate rates—or the prospect of lodging in a ...

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas says it is “really disappointing” that Turkey went against the “rest of the world” to cost Adelaide the chance of hosting COP31. Adelaide was expected to ...

With few signs that 30 years of United Nations climate talks have significantly slowed the pace of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the climate, calls to revamp the negotiations have grown louder, ...