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.
The Cabinet Office team working on the COP26 agenda is to be cut by approximately one third, Alok Sharma has told peers
In a stocktake of the COP26 climate talks, the Climate Change Committee has called on the government to reinvigorate the domestic climate agenda and continue to engage internationally
Prime minister Boris Johnson has spoken of his frustration that a pledge to phase out coal was downgraded after an eleventh hour intervention by India and China
The defunct Department for Energy and Climate Change could effectively rise from the grave under plans being discussed to give COP26 president Alok Sharma a new job, according to reports
With the crunch climate talks in Glasgow now expected to on beyond this evening's official deadline, negotiations on key issues to implement the Paris Agreement and drive up ambition have reached crunch point and will inevitably result in compromises and tradeoffs, according to observers.
The government’s decision to make all new heavy goods vehicles in the UK zero emission by 2040 has been welcomed as a positive sign of progress in decarbonising the logistics industry
The prime minister is returning to the COP26 summit today to try to chivvy nations into action, as research shows current pledges are far off the 1.5°c warming target
With just days to go to the crunch climate talks in Glasgow, read our guide to the key items on the agenda and what to expect if you are going
Attending COP26 and wondering what footwear to pack? Want to know where to find the best chocolate and where to get the inside track on what's on the day's agenda? ENDS spoke to attendees of previous climate talks to find out
COP26 has been hailed as both a success and a failure but regardless of what position is taken, the global conference's outcomes will have a number of short and medium term implications for business, experts tell Isabella Kaminski
A last-minute quibble stymied an agreement to phase out coal power, though a global carbon market is being established and the vast majority of the world’s economy is now committed to net zero. Here’s 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
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