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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

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

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

Negotiations over new collective climate finance goal remain at an impasse in Baku, as report claims proposed $1tr by 2030 target is both feasible and cost effective

Annual analysis of global climate action warns governments are 'failing to bend the curve' as the world edges ever closer to dangerous temperature thresholds

More innovation, activism and cooperation at all levels of society can transcend political divides in the US, argues the Climate Crisis Advisory Group's Alice Hill from the Council on Foreign Relations

Despite warm words and some encouraging funding pledges, the first phase of talks in Baku have made little progress towards agreeing a new global climate finance target