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EXCLUSIVE: High Level Champion for COP29 Nigar Arpadarai rejects criticism of Baku Summit, as she argues fossil fuel industries have a key role to play in tackling climate change

UPDATED: Scores of top businesses and organisations voice deep concern about 'lack of progress and focus' at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan, as new climate finance text released

Slimmed down draft negotiating text on key collective climate finance target comes as Ministers prepare to arrive in Baku for second week of crunch talks

Oil and gas giant reverses 2021 ruling in blow to climate campaigners, European Parliament delays landmark deforestation legislation by a year, and German city announces 2035 gas grid phase-out

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: COP29

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week

In a post-election press call, climate leaders from the World Resource Institute and the Biden administration shared insights into climate action during the next Trump administration

Frustrations grow at Baku Summit, as leading former diplomats declare COP process is 'no longer fit for purpose'

The government's £22bn bet on CCS would be far better spent on capturing CO2 from hard-to-abate industry and nature-based climate solutions, argues Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP

New SMMT data confirms demand for zero emission buses is booming