COP26 

Prime minister Boris Johnson is to tell world leaders later that climate action ‘cannot be another victim of coronavirus’ and will call upon nations to make ambitious climate commitments at a forthcoming December UN event

Business secretary Alok Sharma has been unable to say whether the government will put forward its Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement by the end of the year as called for by the Committee on Climate Change

Next year’s UN climate change summit will only receive sponsorship from companies that have set 'ambitious net zero commitments by 2050 or earlier', the UK government has said, in a move that appears to rule out the vast majority of fossil fuel producers

Climate change is “exerting an increasing impact on the UK’s climate” and combined with natural variability is altering temperatures, rainfall, snow, sunshine, sea level and tree leafing dates, according to a new Met Office report

Environment minister Zac Goldsmith 'cannot think of a more effective way' to mobilise large sums of private finance into nature restoration than the development of carbon markets, he said in a speech yesterday

United Nations officials have given the green light to a proposal from the UK and Italian governments to postpone the COP26 climate talks to November 2021, a full year after they were scheduled to take place, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic

With Downing Street yet to make an announcement about who will replace Claire O’Neill as the president of this year’s crucial UN climate talks, ENDS takes you through the key figures thought to be under consideration