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The UN’s global stocktake found the world is off course to meet its climate goals. How can businesses help fix that?

As carbon credits face intense scrutiny, negotiators will wrangle over how to ensure the integrity of a new global carbon market

Leaders including Narendra Modi, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron and Lula will share their climate plans in Dubai on Friday and Saturday

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

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

The Cop28 team must show leadership on fossil fuel phase-out, renewable and energy efficiency, finance, climate plans and loss and damage

Whistleblowers raise alarm over American consultancy’s growing influence in pushing carbon markets and developing energy transition plans

Climate advocacy is overly dominated by scientists and engineers and is weakened by the lack of historians, philosophers and artists

Could petrostate UAE be the climate summit host that lands an international agreement to exit coal, oil and gas?

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.

Non-binary and trans people have been detained and deported at Dubai airport and being gay is effectively criminalised in the UAE

Annual emissions may have just peaked but the world’s temperature will keep rising until we reach net zero

Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits

Last month, a government-owned electricity company deliberately spilled water from its dam, displacing tens of thousands

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.

Data shows countries provided $89.6bn in 2021, but funding for adaptation declined.

Khalil was a researcher who drew attention to the impacts of climate change on the Gaza Strip before being killed by Israel’s bombs

The EU has introduced a methane import standard, pressuring any company which exports oil and gas to the EU to cut its emissions

The taskforce, set to be launched at Cop28, will consider the feasibility of levies on shipping, aviation, financial transactions and fossil fuels.