News, comment and analysis on the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties.
Glasgow will host 30,000 delegates in November for UN climate talks, billed as the most significant since the Paris agreement was signed in the French capital in 2015.
Nationally determined contributions, like the UK’s new 68% emissions reduction commitment, are at the heart of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Here’s what you need to know
The UK’s plan to achieve a 68% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, among the most ambitious targets in the world, should drive diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. But it must be accompanied swiftly by the equally ambitious policies needed to deliver it, say experts and the government’s own auditors
Reducing the UK’s annual contribution to climate change by 68% compared to 1990 by 2030 would be a 'decisive commitment to a net zero emissions trajectory', according to the Climate Change Committee
Business secretary Alok Sharma is too overloaded with responding to the pandemic, Brexit and decarbonising the UK to also host the forthcoming COP26 talks in Glasgow, according to former climate minister Amber Rudd and others
The government is considering increasing its medium-term target for greenhouse emissions reduction by half, in what would be one of the most radical climate policies in the world, according to reports
A former minister, who was appointed to head COP26 before being abruptly sacked, has told a cross-party group of MPs that Boris Johnson and his team took the view that they could 'wing' preparations for the global climate summit with 'a few press releases'
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s highly anticipated 10-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution aims to put the UK on course for net zero emissions by 2050 and position the country as a world leader on climate change action ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow next year. But does it deliver? Here’s what you need to know
The government will need to find the right combination of policy, financing and regulation to make its green industrial revolution a success, finds Catherine Early
One year after the Tories pledged to ban the deliberate burning of blanket bog, no such ban has been forthcoming and its long-awaited peat strategy remains unpublished. As it prepares to host next year's global climate talks, can the government get the UK's peat plans back on track?
A surprise choice to lead the crucial UN climate talks in November, business secretary Alok Sharma previously served as international development secretary. ENDS takes you through what you need to know
The international climate conference achieved little this year, with carbon markets decisions deferred to the 2020 summit in Glasgow. Isabella Kaminski looks at what stymied the critical talks
The Environment Bill has returned to parliament with new powers on plastic waste and a requirement for ministers to review and report on international green law. Here's what you need to know about what's new and what has been retained
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